Wen emerging gqview with an installed gtk+(without +X flag), emerge fails without correct error message Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. USE=-X emerge gtk+ 2. emerge gqview Actual Results: checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.4.0... no *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed. configure: error: GTK+ >= 2.4.0 not installed. !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: !!! /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/gqview-2.1.5/work/gqview-2.1.5/config.log * * ERROR: media-gfx/gqview-2.1.5 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2238: Called econf '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--without-lcms' * ebuild.sh, line 534: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die "econf failed" * The die message: * econf failed * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/gqview-2.1.5/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/gqview-2.1.5/temp/environment'. * Expected Results: error message, gqview needs gtk+ with X USE-Flag
fixed in cvs, thanks for the report and solution. 30 Jul 2009; Markus Meier <maekke@gentoo.org> gqview-2.1.5.ebuild: x11-libs/gtk+ needs to be built with USE=X by Fabian Holler in bug #278460
I had gqview running for a long time (flawlessly, as far as I can tell), so gtk+[X] cannot really be a runtime dependency. I had it on a headless server that has nxserver-freeedition on it. With gtk+[-X] there are much less "real X server" dependencies that I actually don't need (and don't want)...
USE=X on gtk+ only ever added extra deps for testing; so this resolution was incorrect. I'm not sure what the original issue was, but it wasn't this.
reopen if it's still and issue.
