When emerging app-editors/gedit-2.18.0 with USE="-spell", econf is failing if there is no app-text/enchant present on the target system. Otherwise it seems, if it were present the package would be built with support for spelling, even with USE="-spell". Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. have no app-text/enchant on target system 2. emerge app-text/gedit-2.18.0 with USE="-spell" 3. Actual Results: checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext checking for ENCHANT... no configure: error: Enchant library not found or too old. Use --disable-spell to build without spell plugin. !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /var/tmp/portage/app-editors/gedit-2.18.0/work/gedit-2.18.0/config.log !!! ERROR: app-editors/gedit-2.18.0 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1614: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 971: Called qa_call 'src_compile' ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile ebuild.sh, line 1304: Called gnome2_src_compile gnome2.eclass, line 70: Called gnome2_src_configure gnome2.eclass, line 66: Called econf '--disable-gtk-doc' ebuild.sh, line 577: Called die !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. !!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-editors/gedit-2.18.0/temp/build.log'. We should follow the advice to use --disable-spell if support for spelling is not wanted.
Created attachment 116532 [details, diff] patch to take care of the spell USE flag The ebuild modified with this patch works as expected.
Thanks for reporting this. Patched and committed in CVS. :) FYI, here's what I actually committed (if you ever feel like patching other ebuilds) : +G2CONF="${G2CONF} \ + $(use_enable spell)" +
