media-libs/gd does not ship a pkg-config file. Some packages may need that to configure properly, e.g. bug #173570 The problem comes from upstream, that does not provide a gdlib.pc. It seems there is not much activity there, so I have no idea what's the best course of action. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 210702 [details] pkg-config file for gd Here is a pkg-config file that "worksforme". Adpated from some other distribution, I forgot which one. There are probably issues with Gentoo Prefix, since /usr is hardcoded... The file goes into /usr/lib/pkgconfig/.
any package that requires gd to provide a .pc is broken
(In reply to comment #2) > any package that requires gd to provide a .pc is broken The package I cited doesn't need a gdlib.pc file any more. Feel free to close this bug (UPSTREAM or whatever, I'm not sure).