checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes checking for kpse_find_file in -lkpathsea... no configure: error: kpathsea library not found This version of dvipdfmx requires the kpathsea library and its headers. If you know where it is you might try setting the LDFLAGS environment variable with -L pointing to the directory containing libkpathsea.a. !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /var/tmp/portage/app-text/dvipdfmx-20040411/work/dvipdfmx-20040411/config.log !!! ERROR: app-text/dvipdfmx-20040411 failed. from the config.log: configure:2385: checking for kpse_find_file in -lkpathsea configure:2418: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o conftest -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -I/usr/include -L/usr/lib conftest.c -lkpathsea >&5 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lkpathsea collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:2421: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: #line 2392 "configure" #include "confdefs.h" /* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error. */ #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" #endif /* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2 builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */ char kpse_find_file (); #ifdef F77_DUMMY_MAIN # ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" # endif int F77_DUMMY_MAIN() { return 1; } #endif int main () { kpse_find_file (); ; return 0; } configure:2438: result: no configure:2447: error: kpathsea library not found This version of dvipdfmx requires the kpathsea library and its headers. If you know where it is you might try setting the LDFLAGS environment variable with -L pointing to the directory containing libkpathsea.a.
Portage 2.1.2_pre3-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16.16 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16.16 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 Last Sync: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 18:50:01 +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="ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ 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
I'm assuming that you don't have /usr/lib/libkpathsea.a? It should be installed by one of the TeX distributions that provide virtual/tetex, can you please tell us which one you have installed?
>>> app-text/dvipdfmx-20040411 merged. can't reproduce, closing