When "emerge -u bug-buddy" gets to configuration, it fails on not detecting scrollkeeper-config. output: codewar root # emerge -u bug-buddy Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) gnome-extra/bug-buddy-2.2.103 to / >>> md5 ;-) bug-buddy-2.2.103.tar.bz2 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking bug-buddy-2.2.103.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/bug-buddy-2.2.103/work >>> Source unpacked. configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used. checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for working aclocal-1.4... found checking for working autoconf... found checking for working automake-1.4... found checking for working autoheader... found checking for working makeinfo... found checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for scrollkeeper-config... no configure: error: Couldn't find scrollkeeper-config ./configure: line 1682: exit: please: numeric argument required ./configure: line 1682: exit: please: numeric argument required !!! ERROR: gnome-extra/bug-buddy-2.2.103 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 273, Exitcode 255 !!! econf failed Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Execute "emerge -u bug-buddy" Actual Results: "configure" failed Expected Results: Required "scrollkeeper" to be installed. --EMERGE INFO-- codewar root # emerge info Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.2-r0) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+ GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts svga tcltk java sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis motif opengl mozilla X qt kde gnome alsa gtk" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=athlon-xp -pipe -O3 " CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=athlon-xp -pipe -O3 " ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" MAKEOPTS="-j3" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache" --END-- Normally, I would have had scrollkeeper installed, but due to "docbook-sgml-utils" not compiling it lacks dependences. However, I haven't tested it, but apparently a "-doc" use variable may allow some of these packages to compile.
added scrollkeeper as dep to bugbuddy, to be on the safe side. thanks for the report.