When building app-text/gtkspell-2.0.4-r1, it died with the following: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ... checking aspell.h usability... no checking aspell.h presence... no checking for aspell.h... no checking pspell/pspell.h usability... no checking pspell/pspell.h presence... no checking for pspell/pspell.h... no checking for new_aspell_speller in -laspell... no checking for new_pspell_manager in -lpspell... no configure: error: You must have the aspell or pspell dev libraries to build gtkspell. + diefunc econf 365 1 'econf failed' + local funcname=econf lineno=365 exitcode=1 + shift 3 + echo + echo '!!! ERROR: app-text/gtkspell-2.0.4-r1 failed.' !!! ERROR: app-text/gtkspell-2.0.4-r1 failed. + echo '!!! Function econf, Line 365, Exitcode 1' !!! Function econf, Line 365, Exitcode 1 + echo '!!! econf failed' !!! econf failed + echo + exit 1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Emerging aspell fixed the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. don't emerge aspell 2. try to emerge gtkspell This happened during "emerge -dua world", ~2 hrs after doing "emerge sync".
looks like a dupe of this bug *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30946 ***
