Farsight fails to build for the new pidgin. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge net-im/pidgin-2.6.1 2. 3. Actual Results: Making all in python ***INFO*** There are no declared global functions. ***INFO*** The coverage of methods is 100.00% (26/26) ***INFO*** There are no declared virtual proxies. ***INFO*** There are no declared virtual accessors. ***INFO*** There are no declared interface proxies. CC pyfarsight.o CC pyfarsightmodule.o LINK farsight.la /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lpython2.5 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [farsight.la] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 * * ERROR: net-libs/farsight2-0.0.14 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 88: Called _eapi2_src_compile * ebuild.sh, line 634: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die "emake failed" * The die message: * emake 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/net-libs/farsight2-0.0.14/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-libs/farsight2-0.0.14/temp/environment'. * Expected Results: Wanted to be able to build and use the new pidgin. Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r5-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_3.20GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:30:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1, 3.1.1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.0 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.10.2, 1.11 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" 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/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en_US en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa avahi bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddax cddb cdio cdr cjk cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups dbus dvd dvdr encode faac faad ffmpeg flac gdbm gif gnome gnutls gpg gpgme gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib isdnlog java jpeg libnotify libv4l2 mad mbox mdnsresponder-compat mmx modplug mp3 mp4 mpeg nautilus ncurses new-login nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl pam pcre pdf perl png pop posix ppds pppd python qt4 rdesktop readline recode reflection samba sdl server session slp smime smtp spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl svg symlink sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff transcode truetype unicode v4l v4l2 vlc vnc vorbis win32codecs winbind x86 xcb xml xorg xpm 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 authn_alias authn_anon 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 deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
looks to me like you are using python 2.6 cannot find -lpython2.5 have you ran; python-updater revdep-rebuild
