installing dev-python/gdl-python I got this emerge message: * If you want to build gdl-python you need to build dev-libs/gdl with * the the 'gnome' USE flag. * ERROR: dev-python/gdl-python-2.19.1 failed: * gdl must be built with USE='gnome' the problem here is that the ebuild requires >=dev-libs/gdl-2.24.0 which in turn does NOT have the USE flag 'gnome', making impossible to install gdl-python. Attached there is an ebuild patch that remove the restriction of the USE 'gnome', convert the ebuild to the EAPI2 format and add these enhancements: - removed pkg_setup() as is useless; - added USE 'static-libs' to correctly handle static *.a files; - removal of useless *.la files; Hope to be useful. Mauro Toffanin p.s: the patch files/gdl-python-2.19.1-gdlicons.patch MUST be stored inside gnome-python-extras-2.19.1-split.patch.gz and removed from the portage tree, but is something that I can not fix by the bugzilla.
Created attachment 207070 [details, diff] gdl-python-2.19.1-r2.ebuild.patch
NAK on static-libs and removal of *.la files. Just pass --disable-static always, perhaps even in gnome-python*.eclass I don't understand how you got the error you paste here, because gdl-python built_with_use uses "--missing true", so when gdl-2.24.0 doesn't have IUSE=gnome, it should assume the functionality is there and be happy, iirc. Though mrpouet is saying its configure might be checking for gdl-python pkgconfig package explicitly, which newer gdl probably doesn't provide
(In reply to comment #2) > I don't understand how you got the error you paste here, because gdl-python > built_with_use uses "--missing true", so when gdl-2.24.0 doesn't have > IUSE=gnome, it should assume the functionality is there and be happy, iirc. > Though mrpouet is saying its configure might be checking for gdl-python > pkgconfig package explicitly, which newer gdl probably doesn't provide the message come out using sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc45 and sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc46, if you need more info or some particular tests, just ask, i'm available to provide feedback.
removed the built_with_use call since it is indeed useless. Please reopen if it doesn't fix your problem.
