trying to emerge dev-libs/folks-0.9.3, I'm getting this error: checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config... /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.21... yes checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.16... yes checking for valac... no configure: WARNING: No Vala compiler found. You will not be able to compile .vala source files. checking for GLIB... yes checking for GMODULE... yes checking for GIO... yes checking for DBUS_GLIB... yes checking for GEE... yes checking for TP_GLIB... yes checking for ZEITGEIST... yes Vala source needs to be re-compiled; requiring Vala... checking for valac... no configure: WARNING: No Vala compiler found. You will not be able to compile .vala source files. configure: error: Vala requested but valac is not installed but according to use flags, vala should not be used: calvin folks # equery uses folks [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation] [ : I - package is installed with flag ] [ Colors : set, unset ] * Found these USE flags for dev-libs/folks-0.9.3: U I - - debug : Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml - - eds : Enables support for Evolution-Data-Server (EDS) - - socialweb : Load web service contacts using net-libs/libsocialweb + - telepathy : Load contacts from the Telepathy framework - - test : Workaround to pull in packages needed to run with FEATURES=test. Portage-2.1.2 handles this internally, so don't set it in make.conf/package.use anymore - - tracker : Load contacts from app-misc/tracker index - - utils : Build the folks-inspect utility - - vala : Regenerate pre-generated C code from Vala source + - zeitgeist : Add support for Zeitgeist event tracking system so vala_src_prepare is not called, but for some reason configure search for vala compiler (and does not find it even if present, for valac naming convention issue, IIRC.) Reproducible: Always calvin folks # emerge --info Portage 2.2.0_alpha193 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.17, 3.10.5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.10.5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-3427U_CPU_@_1.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 8095340 total, 3153036 free KiB Swap: 8386556 total, 8386556 free Timestamp of tree: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 19:15:01 +0000 ld ld di GNU (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/python: 2.7.5-r1, 3.2.5-r1, 3.3.2-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.11.1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4, 1.14 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.9 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.17 Repositories: gentoo rion overlay Installed sets: @kde ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -mtune=native -O2 -pipe " CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/easy-rsa /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -mtune=native -O2 -pipe " DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ipv6.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.imj.fr/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://mirror.qubenet.net/mirror/gentoo/" LANG="it_IT.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/rion /usr/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext 3dnowprefetch X \ a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa amd64 apng ares asf ati audio audiofile avahi bash-completion berkdb bidi bl bluetooth branding bri bzip2 cairo caps ccdda cdda cdr cjk cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups curl cxx dba dbus declarative device-mapper dga divx divx4linux dparanoia dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eap-sim edl embedded emboss encode ethereal exif expat faad fam fame fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gallium garmin gd gdbm gif gimp gmedia gmp gnutls gphoto2 gpm gps gsm gtk h264 h323 iconv icq icu idn ifp ilbc imagemagick imap innodb ipod iproute2 ipv6 ithreads jabber java javascript joystick jpeg kde kipi kontact kvm lastfm lcms ldap libcaca libnotify libvirtd live lm_sensors lua lvm lxc lzma lzo mad maildir matroska mbox mdnsresponder-compat mhash mime mjpeg mmap mmx mmxext mng modules mozdevelop mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg msn mtp mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nepomuk network networkmanager new-hpcups nfsv4 njb nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ofx ogg oggvorbis ogm openal openexr opengl openmp oscar pam pango parted pcap pcre pdf phonon php plasma plotutils png policykit ppds pulseaudio qemu qt3support qt4 readline real rtc ruby samba sasl sdl semantic-desktop session sha512 sip slang slp smartcard sndfile snmp sox speex spell srt sse sse2 ssh ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg symlink tcltk tcpd theora threads tiff tk tremor truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb utempter v4l v4l2 vaapi vcd vde vhosts video videos vim-syntax virt-network virtualbox vorbis wav webkit wifi wimax wmf wmp wps wxwidgets wxwindows x264 xanim xattr xcb xcomposite xface xft xine xinerama xml xosd xpm xscreensaver xsl xulrunner xv xvid zlib zpm" ABI_X86="32 64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="it en" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-4" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
+ 09 Aug 2013; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> + -files/folks-0.9.1-automagic-fix1.patch, + -files/folks-0.9.1-automagic-fix2.patch, + -files/folks-0.9.1-automagic-fix3.patch, -folks-0.9.1.ebuild, + -folks-0.9.2.ebuild, folks-0.9.3.ebuild: + Fix vala/zeitgeist compilation problems (#471368 by Peter Alfredsen, #479600 + by Juergen Rose and Marien Zwart, #479758 by Fabio Coatti), drop old. +
same as #471368: This change now causes the following problem: gnome-extra/gnome-contacts-3.8.3 depends on dev-libs/folks[vala], but dev-libs/folks doesn't have the vala USE flag anymore.
Just solved (I am in gnome herd, then, you don't need to drop the same message in all reports)
