Error while emerging gnome-spell 1.0.5: (...) ./configure: line 1: aspell: command not found ./configure: line 1: aspell: command not found ./configure: line 1: aspell: command not found ./configure: line 1: aspell: command not found checking for new_aspell_config in -laspell... no configure: error: gnome-spell cannot be built without aspell library !!! ERROR: app-text/gnome-spell-1.0.5 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 365, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed -------------------------------------------------------------------- So what's with the "virtual/aspell-dict" in the RDEPEND in the gnome-spell-1.0.5.ebuild if when I don't have aspell installed it's not beeing taken care of by emerge automagically? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 'emerge =gnome-spell-1.0.5' (while not having aspell installed) Actual Results: Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) app-text/gnome-spell-1.0.5 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) gnome-spell-1.0.5.tar.bz2 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking gnome-spell-1.0.5.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/gnome-spell-1.0.5/work >>> Source unpacked. * Patching ${S}/ltmain.sh... * Applying portage-1.4.1.patch... doc configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used. checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for working aclocal-1.4... found checking for working autoconf... found checking for working automake-1.4... found checking for working autoheader... found checking for working makeinfo... found checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... 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 gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking what warning flags to pass to the C compiler... -Wall -Wunused -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations checking what language compliance flags to pass to the C compiler... checking for strerror in -lcposix... no checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for BSD-compatible nm... nm checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking whether ln -s works... yes checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all checking command to parse nm output... ok checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking dlfcn.h usability... yes checking dlfcn.h presence... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... no checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip... no checking for strip... strip checking for objdir... .libs checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes checking whether the linker (/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no creating libtool checking locale.h usability... yes checking locale.h presence... yes checking for locale.h... yes checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes checking libintl.h usability... yes checking libintl.h presence... yes checking for libintl.h... yes checking for dgettext in libc... yes checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... yes checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for dcgettext... yes checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext checking for catalogs to be installed... pl ./configure: line 1: aspell: command not found ./configure: line 1: aspell: command not found ./configure: line 1: aspell: command not found ./configure: line 1: aspell: command not found checking for new_aspell_config in -laspell... no configure: error: gnome-spell cannot be built without aspell library !!! ERROR: app-text/gnome-spell-1.0.5 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 365, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed Expected Results: gnome-spell successfully installed. Full output of 'emerge =gnome-spell-1.0.5': bet-pc adastra # emerge =gnome-spell-1.0.5 Output of 'etcat -v gnome-spell': [ Results for search key : gnome-spell ] [ Candidate applications found : 4 ] Only printing found installed programs. * app-text/gnome-spell-0.5 : [ ] 0.5 (0) * app-text/gnome-spell-1.0.4 : [ I] 1.0.4 (1) * app-text/gnome-spell-1.0.5 : [ ] 1.0.5 (1) * app-text/gnome-spell-1.0.5-r1 : [M~ ] 1.0.5-r1 (1) Output of 'etcat -v aspell': [ Results for search key : aspell ] [ Candidate applications found : 3 ] Only printing found installed programs. * app-text/aspell-0.50.3 : [ ] 0.50.3 (0) * app-text/aspell-0.50.4.1 : [M~ ] 0.50.4.1 (0) * app-text/aspell-0.50.5 : [M~ ] 0.50.5 (0) Output of 'emerge info': Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.3-evil6) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.3-evil6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13p1 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ARCH="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" BASH_ENV="/etc/portage/bashrc" CC="gcc" CCACHE_SIZE="2G" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -Os -msse -mmmx -m3dnow -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -ffast-math -fforce-addr -mno-push-args -pipe -s" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CLASSPATH="/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/jre/lib/rt.jar:.:." CLEAN_DELAY="5" COLORTERM="" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CVS_RSH="ssh" CXX="g++" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -Os -msse -mmmx -m3dnow -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -ffast-math -fforce-addr -mno-push-args -pipe -s" DISPLAY=":0.0" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EDITOR="/bin/nano" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache digest notitles sandbox" FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -t 5 --passive-ftp --limit-rate=10k ${URI} -P ${DISTDIR}" GDK_USE_XFT="1" GDMSESSION="kde-3.2.0" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://www.die.unipd.it/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo-sources/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" GLIBC_SSP_CHECKED="1" GRP_STAGE23_USE="ipv6 pam tcpd readline nls ssl gpm perl python berkdb acl ncurses" GS_LIB="/home/adastra/.fonts" GTK2_RC_FILES="/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/home/adastra/.gtkrc-2.0:/home/adastra/.kde3.2/share/config/gtkrc" GTK_RC_FILES="/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/adastra/.gtkrc:/home/adastra/.kde3.2/share/config/gtkrc" G_BROKEN_FILENAMES="1" HOME="/root" HOSTNAME="bet-pc" IA32ROOT="/opt/intel/compiler70/ia32" INFODIR="/usr/share/info:/usr/X11R6/info" INFOPATH="/usr/share/info:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3/info" INPUTRC="/etc/inputrc" INTEL_FLEXLM_LICENSE="/opt/intel/licenses" INTEL_LICENSE_FILE="/opt/intel/licenses" JAVAC="/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/bin/javac" JAVA_HOME="/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1" JDK_HOME="/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1" KDEDIR="/usr/kde/3.2" KDEDIRS="/usr" KDE_FULL_SESSION="true" KDE_MULTIHEAD="false" KONSOLE_DCOP="DCOPRef(konsole-9240,konsole)" KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION="DCOPRef(konsole-9240,session-3)" LANGUAGE="48" LESS="-R" LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s" LINGUAS="pl en" LOGNAME="adastra" LS_COLORS="" MAKEOPTS="-j2" MANPATH="/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3/man:/opt/intel/compiler70/man:/usr/X11R6/man::/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/man:/usr/qt/3/doc/man:/opt/vmware/man" NOCOLOR="false" PAGER="/usr/bin/less" PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3:/opt/intel/compiler70/ia32/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/jre/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.2/sbin:/usr/kde/3.2/bin:/opt/vmware/bin" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_BINHOST_CHUNKSIZE="3000" PORTAGE_CACHEDIR="/var/cache/edb/dep/" PORTAGE_CALLER="emerge" PORTAGE_GID="250" PORTAGE_MASTER_PID="1305" PORTAGE_NICENESS="18" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" PORT_LOGDIR="/var/log/portage" PRELINK_PATH="" PRELINK_PATH_MASK="/opt" PS1="\[\033[01;31m\]\h \[\033[01;34m\]\W \$ \[\033[00m\]" PWD="/home/adastra" PYTHONDOCS="/usr/share/doc/python-docs-2.3.3/html" QMAKESPEC="linux-g++" QTDIR="/usr/qt/3" RESUMECOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -c -t 5 --passive-ftp --limit-rate=10k ${URI} -P ${DISTDIR}" RPMDIR="/usr/portage/rpm" RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM="/usr/portage/rsync_excludes" RSYNC_RETRIES="3" RSYNC_TIMEOUT="180" SESSION_MANAGER="local/bet-pc:/tmp/.ICE-unix/9192" SHLVL="4" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" TERM="xterm" USE="3dnow X Xaw3d aalib aavm acl acpi acpi4linux alsa apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups dga directfb doc dvd encode esd evms2 faad fbcon flac foomaticdb gd gdbm ggi gif glut gmttria gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib jabber java jikes jpeg junit kadu-modules kadu-voice kde lcms ldap libg++ libwww linguas_en linguas_pl mad matroska mdb memlimit mikmod mmx motif mpeg mpi music ncurses nls nocardbus nocd nptl oav offensive oggvorbis oldworld openal opengl openssh operanom2 optional-tasks oss pam pdflib perl png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl slang slp speex spell sse ssl stroke svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff tlen transcode truetype unicode usb v4l videos vim-with-x wmf wxwindows x86 xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib" USER="adastra" USERLAND="GNU" USERNAME="adastra" USE_EXPAND="VIDEO_CARDS INPUT_DEVICES LINGUAS" WINDOWID="39845893" XARGS="xargs -r" XAUTHORITY="/root/.xauth44O6Ey" XCURSOR_SIZE="" XCURSOR_THEME="default" XINITRC="/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc" _="/usr/bin/emerge"
we don't know, we can't reproduce this. Maybe some portage problem ? *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41019 ***
