I compiled scidavis. It asked me to install a bunch of packages: muParser, qwt, qt-assistant, gl2ps, qwtplot3d. scidavis was compiled with USE="-python" Compilation crashed as shown: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -c -pipe -O2 -pipe -D_REENTRANT -Wall -W -DSCRIPTING_CONSOLE -DSCRIPTING_DIALOG -DSCRIPTING_MUPARSER -DPYTHON_CONFIG_PATH=\"/usr/share/scidavis\" -DPYTHON_UTIL_PATH=\"/usr/share/scidavis\" -DSCRIPTING_PYTHON -DQT_PLUGIN -DTS_PATH=\"/usr/share/scidavis/translations\" -DDOC_PATH=\"/usr/share/doc/scidavis-0.2.3\" -DLEGACY_CODE_0_2_x -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_SVG_LIB -DQT_QT3SUPPORT_LIB -DQT3_SUPPORT -DQT_XML_LIB -DQT_OPENGL_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/share/qt4/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I. -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt4/QtNetwork -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -I/usr/include/qt4/QtOpenGL -I/usr/include/qt4/QtXml -I/usr/include/qt4/Qt3Support -I/usr/include/qt4/QtSvg -I/usr/include/qt4 -I/usr/include/qt4/QtAssistantClient -I/usr/include/qt4/QtAssistant -I/usr/include/qwtplot3d -I/usr/include/qwt5 -Isrc -Isrc/future -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/mnt/stockage/sys/tmp/portage/sci-visualization/scidavis-0.2.3/work/scidavis-0.2.3/tmp/scidavis -I. -o ../tmp/scidavis/PythonScripting.o src/PythonScripting.cpp make[1]: *** No rule to make ../tmp/scidavis/sipscidaviscmodule.cpp , necessary for ../tmp/scidavis/sipscidaviscmodule.o . Stop. Notice how it crashes in a sip-related thing. I recompiled with USE="python". emerge asked for dev-python/sip, pygsl, imaging, scipy and PyQt4. It went well. Reproducible: Always emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc46 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.31-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r2-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_Processor_3200+-with-gentoo-1.12.11.1 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:45:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r3, 2.6.2-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/linux/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="fr_FR@euro" LC_ALL="fr_FR@euro" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="fr fr_FR" 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" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aalib abook acpi alsa amd64 audiofile bash-completion blas branding bzip2 cairo calendar cdparanoia cdr cjk cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups dbus directfb dlloader dri dvd dvdr exif ext-html ext-koffice ext-openoffice ext-pdf ext-ps ext-tex fam fbcon firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gcj gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 hal iconv idn iee1394 imagemagick imap ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde laptop lesstif libcaca libnotify lm_sensors mbox mmx mng modules motif mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib new-login nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp oss ovrimos pam pcre pdf perl pic png pop posix pppd qt qt3 qt3support qt4 readline recode reflection ruby session sox speex spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg symlink sysfs sysvipc tcpd tetex theora threads thunar tiff truetype unicode usb verbose vim-syntax vorbis wifi x264 xcomposite xml xml2 xmms xorg xpm xsl xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci 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="access auth auth_dbm auth_anon auth_digest authz_host alias file-cache echo charset-lite cache disk-cache mem-cache ext-filter case_filter case-filter-in mime-magic cern-meta expires headers unique-id proxy proxy-connect proxy-ftp proxy-http info include cgi cgid dav dav-fs vhost-alias speling rewrite log_config logio env setenvif mime status autoindex asis negotiation dir imap actions userdir so" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics void evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr fr_FR" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa fbdev dummy" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I changed python to be mandatory. If anyone has a patch to make it optional, please provide. Thanks.
