ran emerge -av kdemultimedia-meta and on the first package, kde-base/artsplugin-audiofile-3.5.0, the ebuild failed due to the wrong version of qt being installed. I have QT ver4.1 //-----> checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3 and < 4.0) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation! For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log. Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support! !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /var/tmp/portage/artsplugin-audiofile-3.5.0/work/artsplugin-audiofile-3.5.0/config.log !!! ERROR: kde-base/artsplugin-audiofile-3.5.0 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1545: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 940: Called src_compile ebuild.sh, line 1254: Called kde-meta_src_compile kde-meta.eclass, line 410: Called kde_src_compile kde.eclass, line 164: Called kde_src_compile 'all' kde.eclass, line 306: Called kde_src_compile 'myconf' 'configure' 'make' kde.eclass, line 288: Called econf '--with-x' '--enable-mitshm' '--without-xinerama' '--with-qt-dir=/usr/qt/3' '--enable-mt' '--with-qt-libraries=/usr/qt/3/lib' '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--disable-debug' '--without-debug' '--disable-final' '--prefix=/usr/kde/3.5' '--mandir=/usr/kde/3.5/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/kde/3.5/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/kde/3.5/share' '--sysconfdir=/usr/kde/3.5/etc' ebuild.sh, line 541: Called die !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. //----------------< error message config.log ---> //snip configure:29701: checking for Qt configure: 29766: /usr/qt/3/include/qstyle.h taking that configure:29884: rm -rf SunWS_cache; i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -o conftest -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -O2 -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fno-ident -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -I/usr/qt/3/include -I. -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -L/usr/qt/3/lib -L/usr/lib conftest.cc -lqt-mt -lpng -lz -lm -ljpeg -ldl -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE -lpthread 1>&5 /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_get_IHDR@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_destroy_write_struct@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_write_end@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_compression_level@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_write_fn@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_destroy_read_struct@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_create_read_struct@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_packswap@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_get_progressive_ptr@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_read_fn@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_filler@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_get_text@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_invert_mono@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_tRNS@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_read_image@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_get_x_pixels_per_meter@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_interlace_handling@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_get_io_ptr@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_error@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_error_fn@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_gAMA@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_process_data@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_read_end@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_read_info@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_read_update_info@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_create_write_struct@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_IHDR@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_get_y_offset_pixels@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_PLTE@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_swap_alpha@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_get_valid@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_packing@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_progressive_combine_row@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_text@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_create_info_struct@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_gray_to_rgb@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_write_chunk@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_sig_bytes@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_expand@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_write_info@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_write_image@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_oFFs@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_bgr@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_get_gAMA@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_gamma@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_get_y_pixels_per_meter@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_progressive_read_fn@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_get_x_offset_pixels@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_strip_16@PNG12_0' /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so: undefined reference to `png_set_pHYs@PNG12_0' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:29887: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: #include "confdefs.h" #include <qglobal.h> #include <qapplication.h> #include <qcursor.h> #include <qstylefactory.h> #include <private/qucomextra_p.h> #if ! (QT_VERSION >= 0x030300 && QT_VERSION < 0x040000) #error 1 #endif int main() { (void)QStyleFactory::create(QString::null); QCursor c(Qt::WhatsThisCursor); return 0; } configure:29927: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3 and < 4.0) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation! For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log. Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support! //snip --------->
you need to re-emerge qt 3. Your png libraries seem to be missing.
See comment #1.
