Bug 257525 – Failed to build media-video/nvidia-settings

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description John Dolmayan 2009-02-03 19:04:53 UTC]

I running with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+, a GeForce 8500 and Linux gentoo 2.6.27-gentoo-r8. 
My problem is that I can't install media-video/nvidia-settings package, I've installed nvidia-drivers package and all of dependences and nvidia-settings dependences, I tried to install all of possible versions of nvidia-settings(masked and unmasked) and always I recieve the same bug. 
Here I paste my final error message:

 make: *** [nvidia-settings] Error 1
 * 
 * ERROR: media-video/nvidia-settings-169.07 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_compile
 *             environment, line 2149:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *       emake CC="$(tc-getCC)" || die "Failed to build nvidia-settings"
 *  The die message:
 *   Failed to build nvidia-settings
 * 
 * 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/media-video/nvidia-settings-169.07/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-video/nvidia-settings-169.07/temp/environment'.
 * 

I've attached the error log file and the environment file.

[Comment 1 John Dolmayan 2009-02-03 19:10:02 UTC]

Created attachment 180838 [details]
my bug log file

[Comment 2 John Dolmayan 2009-02-03 19:10:29 UTC]

Created attachment 180839 [details]
my environment log file

[Comment 3 Patrick Lauer 2009-02-04 00:09:47 UTC]

bin/ld: cannot find -lXxf86vm
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [nvidia-settings] Error 1

Do you have x11-libs/libXxf86vm installed? If not does installing it fix the issue?

[Comment 4 John Dolmayan 2009-02-04 15:53:54 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> bin/ld: cannot find -lXxf86vm
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [nvidia-settings] Error 1
> 
> Do you have x11-libs/libXxf86vm installed? If not does installing it fix the
> issue?
> 

Thank you!! I've "re-emerged" the x11-libs/libXxf86vm package and it solved the problem. 

I believe in Gentoo

Thank you  

[Comment 5 Trenton D. Adams 2009-03-03 06:00:55 UTC]

This is still not fixed in regular portage.  I had to unmask the libXxf86vm library to get it to work.