It's impossible to emerge libnotify because it tries to install notification-daemon as dependency but configure script of notification-daemon fails since it can't find libnotify. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge -v libnotify Actual Results: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] x11-misc/notification-daemon-0.4.0 USE="-debug -gstreamer" 0 kB [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libnotify-0.4.5 USE="doc" 0 kB Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 0 kB >>> Verifying ebuild manifests >>> Starting parallel fetch >>> Emerging (1 of 2) x11-misc/notification-daemon-0.4.0 * notification-daemon-0.4.0.tar.gz RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking notification-daemon-0.4.0.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/notification-daemon-0.4.0/work * Fixing OMF Makefiles ... [ ok ] * Running elibtoolize in: notification-daemon-0.4.0 * Applying install-sh-1.5.4.patch ... * Applying portage-2.2.patch ... * Applying sed-1.5.6.patch ... >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/notification-daemon-0.4.0/work/notification-daemon-0.4.0 ... * econf: updating notification-daemon-0.4.0/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating notification-daemon-0.4.0/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --disable-sound --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for style of include used by make... 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(cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for dcgettext... yes checking if msgfmt accepts -c... yes checking for gmsgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/gmsgfmt checking for xgettext... (cached) /usr/bin/xgettext checking for catalogs to be installed... checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config... no checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for NOTIFICATION_DAEMON... yes checking for NOTIFICATION_CAPPLET... configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.10.0 gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0 libglade-2.0 gconf-2.0 libnotify dbus-1 dbus-glib-1) were not met: No package 'libnotify' found Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix. Alternatively, you may set the environment variables NOTIFICATION_CAPPLET_CFLAGS and NOTIFICATION_CAPPLET_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details. !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: !!! /var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/notification-daemon-0.4.0/work/notification-daemon-0.4.0/config.log * * ERROR: x11-misc/notification-daemon-0.4.0 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2748: Called gnome2_src_compile * environment, line 2137: Called gnome2_src_configure * environment, line 2151: Called econf '--disable-sound' * ebuild.sh, line 529: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die "econf failed" * The die message: * 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/x11-misc/notification-daemon-0.4.0/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/notification-daemon-0.4.0/temp/environment'. * >>> Failed to emerge x11-misc/notification-daemon-0.4.0, Log file: >>> '/var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/notification-daemon-0.4.0/temp/build.log' * Messages for package x11-misc/notification-daemon-0.4.0: * * ERROR: x11-misc/notification-daemon-0.4.0 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2748: Called gnome2_src_compile * environment, line 2137: Called gnome2_src_configure * environment, line 2151: Called econf '--disable-sound' * ebuild.sh, line 529: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die "econf failed" * The die message: * 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/x11-misc/notification-daemon-0.4.0/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/notification-daemon-0.4.0/temp/environment'. * "emerge --nodeps libnotify" solves the problem.
Thanks for reporting this dependency problem; assigning to maintainer
*** Bug 252593 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Maybe bug 252593 is duplicate of 2525_9_1, not 252521?
emerge =x11-misc/notification-daemon-0.3.7-r1 emerge libnotify emerge notification-daemon
notification-daemon-0.4.0 should RDEPEND on libnotify when the capplet is built and libnotify should move it's || ( notification-daemon ) to PDEPEND to break circular dependency. Thanks for spotting the issue.
(In reply to comment #5) > notification-daemon-0.4.0 should RDEPEND on libnotify This part is done. > when the capplet is built > and libnotify should move it's || ( notification-daemon ) to PDEPEND to break > circular dependency. And I just dropped notification-daemon from libnotify dependencies, since I don't know why it's there in the first place. library is library and I think it should not {P}depend on daemons :) Fixed.
