decibel@decibel.2[16:29]~:229>grep USE /etc/make.conf | tail -1 USE="X gtk oci8 -kde -alsa java" decibel portage/tora-1.3.11-r2# emerge -v tora Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-db/tora-1.3.11-r2 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) tora-alpha-1.3.11.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking tora-alpha-1.3.11.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/tora-1.3.11-r2/work * Applying tora-index-segfault.patch... [ ok ] * Applying tora-clipboard.patch... [ ok ] >>> Source unpacked. checking for perl... perl checking for KDE support ... no checking for Qt library ... /usr/qt/3/lib checking for moc ... /usr/qt/3/bin/moc checking for uic ... /usr/qt/3/bin/uic checking for lrelease ... /usr/qt/3/bin/lrelease checking for lupdate ... /usr/qt/3/bin/lupdate checking for Qt include files ... /usr/qt/3/include checking for Qt version ... 3.2.2 checking for library consistency ... yes checking for static Qt library ... no checking for Oracle ... /home/oracle checking for Oracle version ... Error 6 initializing SQL*Plus Message file sp1<lang>.msb not found SP2-0750: You may need to set ORACLE_HOME to your Oracle software directory failed! Could not find out your Oracle client release !!! ERROR: dev-db/tora-1.3.11-r2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 48, Exitcode 2 !!! conf failed decibel portage/tora-1.3.11-r2# cd work/tora-1.3.11/ decibel work/tora-1.3.11# ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-mono --without-kde checking for perl... perl checking for KDE support ... no checking for Qt library ... /usr/qt/3/lib checking for moc ... /usr/qt/3/bin/moc checking for uic ... /usr/qt/3/bin/uic checking for lrelease ... /usr/qt/3/bin/lrelease checking for lupdate ... /usr/qt/3/bin/lupdate checking for Qt include files ... /usr/qt/3/include checking for Qt version ... 3.2.2 checking for library consistency ... yes checking for static Qt library ... no checking for Oracle ... /home/oracle/OraHome1 checking for Oracle version ... 9.2.0.4.0 checking for MySQL support ... Available through QSql only with Qt >= 3.0.0 checking for any database ... Oracle QSql checking for extra libraries ... -lcrypt
Is ORACLE_HOME defined for your root user?
It is right now, and as far as I know it was back then. Tora seems to be building now, so I guess I'll close the bug.