$ emerge twisted <...> >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/twisted-2.5.0/work/TwistedCore-2.5.0 ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 20, in <module> from twisted import copyright File "./twisted/__init__.py", line 22, in <module> raise ImportError("you need zope.interface installed " ImportError: you need zope.interface installed (http://zope.org/Products/ZopeInterface/) * * ERROR: dev-python/twisted-2.5.0 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 46: Called src_compile * environment, line 2630: Called distutils_src_compile * environment, line 829: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * ${python} setup.py build "$@" || diefunc "$FUNCNAME" "$LINENO" "$?" "compilation failed" * The die message: * compilation failed After emerge zopeinterface, emerge twisted works. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: [user@heartofgold user #2108]$ emerge --info Portage 2.1.4 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.7-r1, 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Timestamp of tree: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:46:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.3 dev-lang/python: 2.3.6-r2, 2.4.4-r4, 2.5.1-r5 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 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="-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/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://mirror.aiya.ru/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.citkit.ru/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/Gentoo http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.po.opole.pl/ http://gentoo.ynet.sk/pub http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en ru" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa amd64 ansi apache2 arts berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif fam firefox fortran gd gdbm gif gimp gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv ieee1394 ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde ldap mad midi mikmod mono mozilla mp3 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl plotutils png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl svg tcltk tcpd theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" 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 auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en ru" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
<snip> DEPEND=">=dev-lang/python-2.3 >=net-zope/zopeinterface-3.0.1 serial? ( dev-python/pyserial ) crypt? ( >=dev-python/pyopenssl-0.5.1 ) gtk? ( >=dev-python/pygtk-1.99 ) !dev-python/twisted-docs" </snip> I really fail to see what you are doing; don't use --nodeps perhaps.
