checking whether GLib is unpacked to irssi dir... no checking for pkg-config... no checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no *** A new enough version of pkg-config was not found. *** See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/ *** trying without -lgmodule checking for pkg-config... (cached) no checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no *** A new enough version of pkg-config was not found. *** See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/ checking for glib-config... no checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.0... no *** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found *** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to glib-config. *** trying without -lgmodule checking for glib-config... (cached) no checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.0... no *** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found *** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to glib-config. *** If you don't have GLIB, you can get it from ftp://ftp.gtk.org *** If you can't install GLIB anywhere or if you don't want to, *** you can just unpack it to Irssi's source directory and *** Irssi will automatically compile and use it. *** I can download GLib for you now. If you don't want to, press CTRL-C now. *** Press ENTER to continue --21:06:23-- ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.8/glib-2.8.3.tar.gz => `glib-2.8.3.tar.gz' Resolving ftp.gtk.org... 128.32.112.248 Connecting to ftp.gtk.org|128.32.112.248|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/gtk/v2.8 ... done. ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR glib-2.8.3.tar.gz ... No such file `glib-2.8.3.tar.gz'. gzip: glib-2.8.3.tar.gz: No such file or directory configure: error: GLIB is required to build irssi. configure: error: ./configure failed for apps/irssi !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: !!! /var/tmp/portage/net-im/silc-client-1.1.3/work/silc-client-1.1.3/config.log * * ERROR: net-im/silc-client-1.1.3 failed. So (1) it misses a pkg-config and glib dep and (2) the build system should be shot because it tries to fetch and build things if they are missing. And it fails at doing that ... Portage 2.1.4_rc14 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.2.2, glibc-2.7-r1, 2.6.23-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ Timestamp of tree: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:00:08 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-lang/python: 2.5.1-r5 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-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/kde/svn/env /usr/kde/svn/share/config /usr/kde/svn/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="buildpkg distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://localhost/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl amd64 berkdb bitmap-fonts cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gcj gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 isdnlog midi mmx mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly objc openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode 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" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vga" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
I added the deps, thanks.