Here's the tail-end of the build log: /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -fvisibility=hidden -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/SDL -D_REENTRANT -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DXINE_COMPILE -Wformat=2 -Wno-format-zero-length -Wmissing-format-attribute -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -frename-registers -ffunction-sections -DNDEBUG -Wl,-z,defs -avoid-version -module -o xineplug_vo_out_sdl.la -rpath /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.24 xineplug_vo_out_sdl_la-video_out_sdl.lo ../../src/xine-engine/libxine.la -lSDL -lpthread -lX11 -lXext -pthread i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -shared .libs/xineplug_vo_out_sdl_la-video_out_sdl.o -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.15-r1/work/xine-lib-1.1.15/src/xine-engine/.libs ../../src/xine-engine/.libs/libxine.so /usr/lib/libSDL.so -lpthread /usr/lib/libX11.so /usr/lib/libXext.so -march=pentium3 -Wl,-z -Wl,defs -pthread -Wl,-soname -Wl,xineplug_vo_out_sdl.so -o .libs/xineplug_vo_out_sdl.so creating xineplug_vo_out_sdl.la /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libcucul.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libcucul.la' is not a valid libtool archive make[3]: *** [xineplug_vo_out_sdl.la] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.15-r1/work/xine-lib-1.1.15/src/video_out' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.15-r1/work/xine-lib-1.1.15/src/video_out' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.15-r1/work/xine-lib-1.1.15/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 /usr/lib/libcucul.la indeed does not exist, though /usr/lib/libcucul.so exists and is a symlink to libcaca.so. media-libs/libcaca-0.99_beta16 is installed. Output of emerge --info: Portage 2.2_rc13 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.25 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.25-i686-Pentium_III_-Katmai-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:16:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.3.6-r2, 2.4.4-r4, 2.5.2-r8 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.8 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.3.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 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-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.3-r1, 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned publicworks sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo http://gentoo.kems.net" LANG="en_GB.utf8" LC_ALL="en_GB.utf8" LDFLAGS="" 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" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage-crossdev /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.fr.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 arts avi bash-completion berkdb caca cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt dbus dga directfb dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd evo fam fbcon firefox fortran gatos gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk guile hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kerberos ldap mad midi mikmod mmx mozilla mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse ssl svg svga tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 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 mmap_emul 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 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" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="mga vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Please run revdep-rebuild. Reopen if the problem persists. Remember to run revdep-rebuild after updating package if it does solve the problem.
I just hit this as well, and... (In reply to comment #1) > Please run revdep-rebuild. > Reopen if the problem persists. > Remember to run revdep-rebuild after updating package if it does solve the > problem. I did run revdep-rebuild and hit the problem again, BUT, I'm trying out unstable portage on this machine so that doesn't probably say much (portage-2.2_rc13). I just wanted to point to http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713934.html for the quick and dirty fix - creating a link from /usr/lib/libcaca.la to /usr/lib/libcucul.la.
Original submitter here: I did run revdep-rebuild, along with various other updates, and somewhere along the line the symlink did get created. Sadly I don't know exactly what did it.
(In reply to comment #3) I had the same problem which was fixed after revdep-rebuild (so resolution is OK) but the file/link was not created as in your case. Is it maybe a leftover from attempts to fix it? Try qfile /usr/lib/libcucul.la to see if it belongs to some package and if it doesn't, delete it and try a revdep-rebuild again.
This bug seems to be about the same issues as bugs #245328 and #249850 but none is marked as duplicate - maybe somebody should change that.