checking where the gettext function comes from... libc checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config... no checking for pkg-config... no checking for GAIM_CFLAGS... checking for GAIM_LIBS... configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old. Make sure it is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full path to pkg-config. Alternatively you may set the GAIM_CFLAGS and GAIM_LIBS environment variables to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details. To get pkg-config, see <http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig>. See `config.log' for more details. !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /var/tmp/portage/guifications-2.10/work/guifications-2.10/config.log !!! ERROR: x11-plugins/guifications-2.10 failed. Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Portage 2.1.2_pre2-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16.16 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16.16 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Last Sync: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://85.25.128.62 ftp://212.219.56.134/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo" 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" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync12.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt cups dlloader dri elibc_glibc fortran gdbm gpm input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog kernel_linux libg++ ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pam pcre perl ppds pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ati video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i740 video_cards_i810 video_cards_imstt video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic video_cards_nsc video_cards_nv video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo xorg zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
This is actually a pidgin bug, as it doesn't install pidgin.pc correctly I suggest marking it as such.
Yes, it should be reported upstream.
After doing some digging and talking to the nice pidgin devs I found the following: pidgin.pc is only installed if the gtk ui is enabled. if you have -gtk in your use flags the pidgin ebuild disables the gtk ui for some reason even that I had -gtk before it installed 2.0.0 gtk ui for me Adding the gtk use flag fixed the problem for me
I'll mark this LATER as it will be really fixable when we get USE-deps
*** Bug 225817 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
