Build fails during compilation phase; various GTK+ modules expect to find libXfixes.la but it's not present. Doing a revdep-rebuild on my system picks up that the currently installed version gtk+ 2.10 also suffers from it (presumably it didn't check during build and thus didn't abort): Checking dynamic linking consistency... broken /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libpixmap.la (requires /usr/lib/libXfixes.la) broken /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-am-et.la (requires /usr/lib/libXfixes.la) broken /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-cedilla.la (requires /usr/lib/libXfixes.la) broken /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-cyrillic-translit.la (requires /usr/lib/libXfixes.la) broken /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-inuktitut.la (requires /usr/lib/libXfixes.la) broken /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-ipa.la (requires /usr/lib/libXfixes.la) broken /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-multipress.la (requires /usr/lib/libXfixes.la) broken /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-thai.la (requires /usr/lib/libXfixes.la) broken /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-ti-er.la (requires /usr/lib/libXfixes.la) broken /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-ti-et.la (requires /usr/lib/libXfixes.la) broken /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-viqr.la (requires /usr/lib/libXfixes.la) broken /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-xim.la (requires /usr/lib/libXfixes.la) broken /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-jasper.la (requires /usr/lib/libjasper.la) broken /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/printbackends/libprintbackend-cups.la (requires /usr/lib/libXfixes.la) broken /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/printbackends/libprintbackend-file.la (requires /usr/lib/libXfixes.la) broken /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/printbackends/libprintbackend-lpr.la (requires /usr/lib/libXfixes.la) broken /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libferret.la (requires /usr/lib/libXfixes.la) broken /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgail.la (requires /usr/lib/libXfixes.la) broken /usr/lib/libXdamage.la (requires /usr/lib/libXfixes.la) broken /usr/lib/libgailutil.la (requires /usr/lib/libXfixes.la) done. Following this I re-emerged x11-libs/libXfixes (emerge --oneshot =x11-libs/libXfixes-5.0), then x11-libs/libXdamage and x11-libs/gtk+ emerged ok. I don't understand how my system got into this state, but figure reporting a bug would help anyone else who trips over the same thing (i.e. this bug can just be closed, perhaps with a comment on what might have caused it?) Reproducible: Always emerge --info: Portage 2.1.9.42 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.11.3-r0, 2.6.36-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r8-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_XP_2500+-with-gentoo-1.12.14 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 16:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.4.6, 2.5.4-r4, 2.6.6-r2, 3.1.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6::<unknown repository>, 1.5, 1.6.3::<unknown repository>, 1.7.9-r2, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 3.3.6-r1, 3.4.6-r2, 4.3.4, 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1 sun-bcla-java-vm AdobeFlash-10.1" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /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" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch pax protect-owned sandbox sfperms sign strict test unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.virginmedia.com/ http://mirror.qubenet.net/mirror/gentoo/" LANG="en_GB" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en_GB en it de es fr" MAKEOPTS="-j1" 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/local/overlays/tree" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X a52 aac acl acpi alsa apache2 arts audiofile berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cairo caps cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups cvs cxx dbus dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr encode fam ffmpeg firefox flac fontconfig foomaticdb fortran gcj gcrypt gdbm gif gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk iconv imagemagick imap imlib ipod ipv6 jack jadetex java javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k kde ldap mad mime mmap mmx mng modules mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pda pdf perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline ruby samba sdl semantic-desktop session sip speex spell sse ssl subversion svg sysfs tcl tcpd test theora threads tidy tiff tk truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vim-syntax vorbis wav wifi win32codecs wmf x264 x86 xcomposite xine xinerama xml xmlrpc xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 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="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB en it de es fr" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa vga radeonhd" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Useless .la files are getting dropped all around the Portage tree causing temporarary glitches, usually running `lafilefixer --justfixit` is the quick solution to that. Rephrasing: It was a mistake the packages installed the .la files at all in the first place, now with removing them, causes this
