gnome-terminal won't build if atk isn't installed, because ./configure will fail.
Created attachment 24051 [details, diff] gnome-terminal-2.4.2.patch
hmm. how did atk get -un-installed on your computer? gnome-terminal depends on gtk+ gtk+ has the dependencies for : >=dev-libs/glib-2.2 >=dev-libs/atk-1.2 >=x11-libs/pango-1.2 So we won't ever -have- to include said dependencies. If your system is down to the state where atk is missing yet you have managed to install gtk+, I'd suggest something is very wrong with your setup. closing as invalid because of this.
I removed atk a few days ago because it wanted to emerge it, but I don't need accessibility stuff. So I unmerged it. I guess this is a portage issue, because it can't handle this kind of thing. ie. when gtk+ is installed but atk isn't, and atk is a dependancy of gtk+... Hopefully it will be in portage-ng.