If I emerge kalarm without ktnef installed on my system, the emerge dies asking for libktnef: libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/kde/3.5/lib/libktnef.la' make[3]: *** [kalarmd] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kalarm-3.5.5/work/kalarm-3.5.5/kalarm/kalarmd' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kalarm-3.5.5/work/kalarm-3.5.5/kalarm' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kalarm-3.5.5/work/kalarm-3.5.5' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: kde-base/kalarm-3.5.5 failed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Uninstall or never install ktnef 2.emerge kalarm Actual Results: emerge kalarm doesn't pull in ktnef, but the compile dies asking for libktnef.la Expected Results: emerge kalarm should pull in ktnef as a dependency emerge --info: Portage 2.1.2-r9 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:30:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -m3dnow" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -m3dnow" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="it en en_GB" 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" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aac aiglx alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cddb cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups dbus divx4linux dri dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran ftp gdbm gif gimp glitz gnome gnustep gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv imagemagick ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack jpeg kde ladspa ldap libg++ mad midi mikmod mmx mng mp3 mpeg mplayer ncurses nls nodrm nptl nptlonly offensive ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse ssl subtitles svg svga tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs wmf x86 xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse aiptek joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it en en_GB" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa fbdev radeon" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS /etc/make.conf: # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage # Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -m3dnow" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" MAKEOPTS="-j2" USE="gtk gtk2 qt kde gnome cups dvd dvdr cdr X alsa ftp gnustep ipv6 jabber ncurses python quicktime avi divx4linux svg sse 3dnow mmx css -arts ppds gimp nodrm theora v4l v4l2 ladspa cairo -eds subtitles mplayer dvdread offensive win32codecs aac jack ffmpeg flac imagemagick svga samba mng tiff wmf usb xvid cddb pdf nptl nptlonly aiglx glitz" PORT_LOGDIR="/var/log/portage" LINGUAS="it en en_GB" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa fbdev radeon" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse aiptek joystick" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf
(In reply to comment #0) sorry for the crappy bug report, it was late in the night. Thanks for rewriting.
kalarm depends on libkcal which depends on ktnef. Dependency is implicitly given, assuming local hickup.