pkgconfig-0.26 is python's dependence to find libffi in the system. It depends on glib:2 which depends on libffi, which cannot be found unless pkgconfig is installed. please keep a version of pkgconfig-0.25 for bootstrap. Actually, former versions of pkgconfig-0.26 should not be removed because a glib:2 dependence is a huge bump! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. bootstrap.... 2. at emerge --oneshot sys-apps/portage, libxml2 jumps up, it predepends on python 3. nightmare begins, may new things depends on python 4. emerge -1O python fails, because it can't find libffi, which is feed by pkgconfig
pkg-config comes from gx86, so we can't really restore 0.25, unfortunately. Freedesktop people, what do you think?
glib can be built without pkgconfig, look at this in src_configure inside glib ebuild: # Avoid circular depend with dev-util/pkgconfig if ! has_version dev-util/pkgconfig; then if has_version sys-apps/dbus; then export DBUS1_CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/$(get_libdir)/dbus-1.0/include" export DBUS1_LIBS="-ldbus-1" fi export LIBFFI_CFLAGS="-I$(echo /usr/$(get_libdir)/libffi-*/include)" export LIBFFI_LIBS="-lffi" fi
I synced glib now, so that fix should be available, but I'm not sure if that fixes anything, since glib is a hefty dependency for a bootstrap indeed. We'll have to find out.
(In reply to comment #3) > I synced glib now, so that fix should be available, but I'm not sure if that > fixes anything, since glib is a hefty dependency for a bootstrap indeed. We'll > have to find out. FYI, the reason that pkgconfig-0.25 and earlier did not depend on glib is because it contained a bundled copy of glib-1. For 0.26, pkgconfig developers rightly decided to remove the bundled library and rely on system's glib-2 instead.
(In reply to comment #3) > I synced glib now, so that fix should be available, but I'm not sure if that > fixes anything, since glib is a hefty dependency for a bootstrap indeed. We'll > have to find out. Fixes went also to libgamin and gam-server related to this. Also, I'm not sure if the code block is missing ${EPREFIX} in the -I paths...
bootstrapping succeed with todays snapshot, so this is luckily not a problem
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 385561 ***
