DEPEND="dev-libs/popt dev-util/pkgconfig gtk? ( =x11-libs/gtk+-1.2* ) sdl? ( >=media-libs/libsdl-1.2.4.20020601 ) xv? ( virtual/x11 )" The pkgconfig Shouldnt be kept for RDEPEND, so I'd suggest a change to this : RDEPEND="dev-libs/popt gtk? ( =x11-libs/gtk+-1.2* ) sdl? ( >=media-libs/libsdl-1.2.4.20020601 ) xv? ( virtual/x11 )" DEPEND="${RDEPEND} dev-util/pkgconfig" as pkgconfig doesn't have anything to do with the runtime system.
Fixed! thanks.