modifying the ebuild to require libgpod-0.5.2 instead of 0.4.2 works for me. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Actual Results: >>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-pda/gtkpod-0.99.10 to / * gtkpod-0.99.10.tar.gz RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] * gtkpod-0.99.10.tar.gz SHA1 ;-) ... [ ok ] * gtkpod-0.99.10.tar.gz SHA256 ;-) ... [ ok ] * gtkpod-0.99.10.tar.gz size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking gtkpod-0.99.10.tar.gz ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking gtkpod-0.99.10.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/app-pda/gtkpod-0.99.10/work sed: can't read configure: No such file or directory >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/app-pda/gtkpod-0.99.10/work/gtkpod-0.99.10 ... * econf: updating gtkpod-0.99.10/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating gtkpod-0.99.10/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/usr/lib64 --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking dependency style of x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc3 checking for library containing strerror... none required checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... (cached) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for intltool >= 0.33... 0.35.0 found checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for XML::Parser... ok checking for iconv... /usr/bin/iconv checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext checking for pkg-config... ok checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config... no checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for PACKAGE... no configure: error: *** Requested 'libgpod-1.0 >= 0.5.2' but version of libgpod is 0.4.2 Portage 2.1.2.7 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r7 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 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: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-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/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ask" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ " LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en" 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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl alsa amd64 berkdb bitmap-fonts branding cairo cdinstall cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd firefox fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg libg++ logrotate midi mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia opengl openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python qt3 readline reflection samba session spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode xcb xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci 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" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Also the sed fails in the ebuild: > sed: can't read configure: No such file or directory
Oops, sorry, I completely forgot to update the dep. now its fixed