When I try to emerge control-center with net-misc/howl NOT installed I get: /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -Wall -o libgnome-window-settings.la -rpath /usr/lib -export_dynamic -version-info 1:0:0 gnome-window-manager.lo gnome-wm-manager.lo -Wl,--export-dynamic -pthread -lglade-2.0 -lgnome-desktop-2 -lgnomeui-2 -lSM -lICE -lstartup-notification-1 -lbonoboui-2 -lxml2 -lz -lgnomecanvas-2 -lgnome-2 -lpopt -lart_lgpl_2 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangox-1.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgnomevfs-2 -lbonobo-2 -lgconf-2 -lbonobo-activation -lORBit-2 -lm -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lgthread-2.0 -lgnome-menu -lglib-2.0 -lSM -lICE -lX11 grep: /usr/lib/libhowl.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libhowl.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libhowl.la' is not a valid libtool archive make[2]: *** [libgnome-window-settings.la] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/control-center-2.10.2/work/control-center-2.10.2/libwindow-settings' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/control-center-2.10.2/work/control-center-2.10.2' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: gnome-base/control-center-2.10.2 failed. !!! Function gnome2_src_compile, Line 48, Exitcode 2 !!! compile failure !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. However the emerge does not pull in howl: home ~ # emerge -1 -p control-center These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] gnome-base/control-center-2.10.2 home ~ # Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.53_rc4 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ITDNet.net/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/obelix /usr/local/portage/axxo/axxo-overlay /usr/local/portage/axxo/obelix" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac acl alsa apache2 avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dbus directfb doc dvd dvdr eds emboss encode flac foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal imagemagick imlib ipv6 ithreads java jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmap mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl pic plotutils png postgres pthreads python qt quicktime readline sdl session sharedmem slang snmp spell sse sse2 ssl svga symlink tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xmms xv xvmc zlib linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
After installing howl, control-center-2.10.2 compiles OK.
Please use revdep-rebuild if the problem still exists. You must have installed something that used howl, and then unmerged it.
*** Bug 133903 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
