the (~x86) ebuild for x11-apps/xdpyinfo should RDEPEND on x11-proto/recordproto. i got the following error, which disappeard after manually emerging recordproto: >>> Emerging (96 of 120) x11-apps/xdpyinfo-1.0.1 to / ... checking for XDPYINFO... configure: error: Package requirements (xext x11 xtst) were not met: Package recordproto was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `recordproto.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable Package 'recordproto', required by 'Xtst', not found Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix. Alternatively, you may set the environment variables XDPYINFO_CFLAGS and XDPYINFO_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details. !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /var/tmp/portage/xdpyinfo-1.0.1/work/xdpyinfo-1.0.1/config.log !!! ERROR: x11-apps/xdpyinfo-1.0.1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1527: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 931: Called src_compile ebuild.sh, line 1240: Called x-modular_src_compile x-modular.eclass, line 316: Called x-modular_src_configure x-modular.eclass, line 303: Called econf '--prefix=/usr' '--datadir=/usr/share' ebuild.sh, line 533: Called die !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
Created attachment 87444 [details] /var/tmp/portage/xdpyinfo-1.0.1/work/xdpyinfo-1.0.1/config.log (should it matter)
xdpyinfo depends on libXtst which depends on recordproto... So, do you have x11-proto/recordproto installed or not? If not, then post emerge --info.
I did have libXtst installed, but strangely, recordproto was not (i since emerged it manually). I had most of X installed from binary pkgs produced a little earlier on another system, maybe thats to do with it? emerge --info: Portage 2.1_rc2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] 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 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt cups dri eds emboss encode esd foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib input_devices_evdev isdnlog jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib png pppd python quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev video_cards_vesa vorbis xml xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
(In reply to comment #3) > I did have libXtst installed, but strangely, recordproto was not (i since > emerged it manually). I had most of X installed from binary pkgs produced a > little earlier on another system, maybe thats to do with it? Well, quite possible. Please, unmerge xdpyinfo, libXtst and recordproto, produce fresh binpkgs and try again. If it still doesn't pull in the needed deps, reopen this bug. Thanks.
