Hello, working on a fresh install of Gentoo 2006.1 "emerge gnome" hanged on a compile failure at librsvg-2.14.4, output: (cd .libs && rm -f librsvg-2.la && ln -s ../librsvg-2.la librsvg-2.la) /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link --tag=CC i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -o rsvg-view rsvg_view-test-display.o -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 -lX11 -lm -pthread -lgnomevfs-2 -lbonobo-2 -lgconf-2 -lgobject-2.0 -lbonobo-activation -lORBit-2 -lm -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lgsf-1 -lgobject-2.0 -lxml2 -lz -lm -lglib-2.0 -lcroco-0.6 -lglib-2.0 -lxml2 -lz -lm -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lxml2 -lm -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 -lcairo -lfontconfig -lexpat -lfreetype -lz -lpopt ./librsvg-2.la /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link --tag=CC i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -o rsvg-convert rsvg-convert.o -pthread -lgnomevfs-2 -lbonobo-2 -lgconf-2 -lgobject-2.0 -lbonobo-activation -lORBit-2 -lm -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lgsf-1 -lgobject-2.0 -lxml2 -lz -lm -lglib-2.0 -lcroco-0.6 -lglib-2.0 -lxml2 -lz -lm -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lxml2 -lm -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 -lcairo -lfontconfig -lexpat -lfreetype -lz -lpopt ./librsvg-2.la -lm i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -o .libs/rsvg-convert rsvg-convert.o -pthread ./.libs/librsvg-2.so /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so -lssl -lcrypto -lresolv -lutil -lrt /usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so /usr/lib/libbonobo-activation.so /usr/lib/libORBitCosNaming-2.so /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so /usr/lib/libpopt.so /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so -lpthread /usr/lib/libgsf-1.so /usr/lib/libcroco-0.6.so /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so /usr/lib/libxml2.so /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so /usr/lib/libcairo.so /usr/lib/libXrender.so /usr/lib/libX11.so /usr/lib/libXau.so /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so -ldl /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so /usr/lib/libexpat.so /usr/lib/libfreetype.so -lz -lm rsvg-convert.o: In function `main': rsvg-convert.c:(.text+0xa37): undefined reference to `cairo_surface_write_to_png_stream' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [rsvg-convert] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -o .libs/rsvg-view rsvg_view-test-display.o /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so -pthread ./.libs/librsvg-2.so /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so -lssl -lcrypto -lresolv -lutil -lrt /usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so /usr/lib/libbonobo-activation.so /usr/lib/libORBitCosNaming-2.so /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so /usr/lib/libpopt.so /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so -lpthread /usr/lib/libgsf-1.so /usr/lib/libcroco-0.6.so /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so /usr/lib/libxml2.so /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so /usr/lib/libcairo.so /usr/lib/libXrender.so /usr/lib/libX11.so /usr/lib/libXau.so /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so -ldl -lm /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so /usr/lib/libexpat.so /usr/lib/libfreetype.so -lz creating rsvg-view make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/librsvg-2.14.4/work/librsvg-2.14.4' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/librsvg-2.14.4/work/librsvg-2.14.4' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: gnome-base/librsvg-2.14.4 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1539: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 939: Called src_compile ebuild.sh, line 1248: Called gnome2_src_compile gnome2.eclass, line 64: Called die !!! compile failure !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. Solution: After "emerge cairo", emerge librsvg worked properly. Peculiarity: I "emerged -C cairo" and retried "emerge librsvg", but when I did "emerge librsvg", this time cairo got automatically emerged.
Did you add the cairo useflag later or at the beginning?
I never used the cairo USE flag, not before or after.
cairo is a hard dep of librsvg, it should have pulled it in the first time.