I have sys-libs/pam-0.78-r3 installed, but -pam in my USE flags. Manually doing ./configure in /var/tmp/portage/kcheckpass-3.5.0/work/kcheckpass-3.5.0 then grep pam config.log gives this: configure:32706: checking for pam_start in -lpam configure:32736: gcc -o conftest -std=iso9899:1990 -W -Wall -Wchar-subscripts -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -O2 -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT conftest.c -lpam -ldl >&5 configure:32782: checking security/pam_appl.h usability configure:32827: checking security/pam_appl.h presence configure:32898: checking for security/pam_appl.h configure:33093: checking for const pam_message ac_cv_header_security_pam_appl_h=yes ac_cv_lib_pam_pam_start=yes PAMLIBS=' -lpam -ldl' PASSWDLIBS=' -lpam -ldl' If I do ./configure --without-pam, then grep pam config.log, I get only this: $ ./configure --without-pam So I currently have kcheckpass installed and it thinks pam is there and fully useable. However, I don't have pam_console installed. So I get these messages in my log when I type my password incorrectly when unlocking my session: Dec 1 00:26:16 [kcheckpass] PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_console.so) Dec 1 00:26:16 [kcheckpass] PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_console.so: cannot open shared object file: N o such file or directory] Dec 1 00:26:16 [kcheckpass] PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_console.so Dec 1 00:26:16 [kde(pam_unix)] authentication failure; logname= uid=1000 euid=0 tty=:0 ruser= rhost= use r=kenyon Dec 1 00:26:19 [kcheckpass] Authentication failure for kenyon (invoked by uid 1000) I haven't tried this, but I'm thinking that if -pam is specified when emerging kcheckpass, the configure should be run with --without-pam, then kcheckpass won't compile with PAM support and therefore won't try to use PAM at all. Those log messages, and a slight delay when you incorrectly enter your password, seem to be the only ill effects of not configuring with --without-pam. emerge info: Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.14-archck5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-archck5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre11 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.14 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-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib alsa apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 caps cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dbus dts dvd eds emboss encode exif expat fam ffmpeg flac font-server foomaticdb fortran freetype gdbm gif glut gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jikes jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal lcms libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad matroska mmx mng mp3 mpeg ncurses network nls nptl nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pcre pdflib perl pic png ppds python qt quicktime readline real recode ruby samba scanner sdl slang sndfile snmp spell sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows xine xml2 xprint xv xvid xvmc zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
I'll take care.
Fixed in CVS.
Fix works as desired, thanks.
