Repro steps: 1) emerge fontforge Result: Fails to link to library /usr/lib/libXt.la Expected: Package to install /bin/sh ../libtool i586-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o makenomenh -march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -I/usr/include/freetype2/ -I/usr/include/libxml2/ -I../inc -I. -I. -Wmissing-prototypes -Wunused -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wparentheses -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DHAVE_ICONV_H=1 -D_HAS_LONGLONG=1 -DFONTFORGE_CONFIG_TYPE3=1 -DFONTFORGE_CONFIG_DEVICETABLES=1 '-DSHAREDIR="/usr/share/fontforge"' -DLIBDIR='"/usr/lib"' ./makenomenh.c -rpath /usr/lib ../libgdraw.la ../libgunicode.la -lSM -lICE -lXi -lX11 -lxkbui -ldl -lpthread -L/usr/lib -lm mkdir .libs libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libXt.la' make[1]: *** [pfaedit-en.ui] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/fontforge-20050624/work/fontforge-20050624/fontforge' make: *** [fontforge] Error 2 !!! ERROR: media-gfx/fontforge-20050624 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1933: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 971: Called src_compile !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. Portage 2.1_pre5-r4 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-ck5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-ck5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 distcc 2.18.3 i586-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 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-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical" FEATURES="autoclean autoconfig candy ccache distlocks maketest nostrip sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://localhost http://distfiles.gentoo.org" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X aac aalib alsa audiofile avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cdr divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread encode f77 ffmpeg fortran gif gnome gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg lcms mad mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pic png python quicktime readline real sdl slang spell sse ssl tcpd tiff truetype userlocales vorbis win32codecs wmf xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
For some reason, after updating to glibc-2.4 and rebuilding my world, this problem went away.
sounds good
