When building sys-apps/grep-2.5.1a-r1 with the pcre use flag, it fails with /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.2.4/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lpcre with libs installed: dev-libs/libpcre Latest version available: 7.7-r1 Latest version installed: 7.6-r1 Size of files: 799 kB Homepage: http://www.pcre.org/ Description: Perl-compatible regular expression library License: BSD and not installed * dev-ml/pcre-ocaml Latest version available: 5.15.0 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 49 kB Homepage: http://www.ocaml.info/home/ocaml_sources.html Description: Perl Compatibility Regular Expressions for O'Caml License: LGPL-2.1 etc.. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -av =sys-apps/grep-2.5.1a-r1 2. 3. Actual Results: ebuild fails Expected Results: ebuild completes Installing dev-libs/libpcre 7.7-r1 fixes the problem (???)
dev-libs/libpcre-7.7-r1 was committed straight to stable on 30 Jun 2008. The 7.6-r1 version was removed from the tree a couple of days ago and should not show up anymore in a sys-apps/portage dependency graph (so you should probably run update-eix or avoid using app-portage/eix under the assumption that it reflects the current state of the tree). All in all that means that your system is out of date, and possibly your portage tree too. Run `emerge --sync; emerge -vuaDN world' to see if that fixes the problem the Summary describes.
