I just did emerge rsync; emerge -u world. xpm was one of the packages which was updated. The installed version is xpm-3.4k-r2. The strange thing is, that the installed package does not contain any single file. A epm -ql xpm gives me nothing. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Different other applications like wmCalClock, wmmon, wmix etc. also don't run after "updating" the xpm package. The thing is, that since xpm is included in XFree the xpm ebuild is just a dummy. Now, when "updating" xpm-3.4k-r2 und as such unmerging xpm-3.4k-r1 the old libXpm* files get removed... Re-emerging xfree solves the problem.
yes, fernando explained it ... xpm is part of xfree ... if you are missing xpm library files, re-emerge/update xfree