***** I filed this bug as a redirector for people who ran across the same problem. Please look at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347491. ***** I ran into this bug when trying to compile brlcad after switching to GCC-4.5.1. The error message is: "iwidgets was disabled, yet no usable iwidgets system package was found." Quick Workaround: rebuild dev-lang/tcl with -O0 instead of -O1 or higher. If this doesn't work for you and you're positive you have the same problem as in the referenced bug, please reopen.