The pidgin 2.4.2 ebuild includes support for enabling or disabling bonjour support (using avahi), using the USE flag "bonjour". If this USE flag is disabled then the appropriate configure entry (--disable-avahi) is not passed to the pidgin configure script, causing the build to error out if the avahi dev files are not installed. This presumably also means that bonjour support is compiled in if support for it is found even if you have disabled it in USE. I will attach the build.log (there is no config.log). Portage is version 2.1.5 midna ~ # emerge -pv pidgin These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] net-im/pidgin-2.4.2 [2.4.1] USE="dbus gstreamer gtk ncurses nls perl spell -bonjour -debug -doc -eds -gadu -gnutls -groupwise -meanwhile -networkmanager -prediction -qq -sasl -silc -tcl -tk -zephyr" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 0 kB midna ~ # emerge --version Portage 2.1.5 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.3, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25.3 x86_64)
Created attachment 153703 [details] build output for failed build (including configure output) No config.log was present but I think the build.log file is what you want, this shows the configure output where pidgin complains about avahi being non-existent.
I thought I had already tried updating but after looking at the ebuild (and actually re-emerging) this bug is already fixed in the Portage tree. Sorry about the noise.
