Without it we get the following: --- ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/usr/lib64 --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-schemas-compile --enable-editor VALAC= --disable-gtk-doc [...] checking for valac... /usr/bin/valac checking /usr/bin/valac is at least version 0.15.1... no configure: error: Vala 0.15.1 not found. --- The ebuild seems to indicate that vala isn't necessary, but the configure script begs to differ. After emerging vala-0.16 it builds successfully. --- # emerge --info =gnome-base/dconf-0.12.1 Portage 2.2.0_alpha101 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r1, 3.4.0-rc5 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.4.0-rc5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-2620M_CPU_@_2.70GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 01 May 2012 23:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p24-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r1, 3.2.3 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.9.3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r3 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.3 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r1 Repositories: gentoo marduk gnome gfxboot_overlay Installed sets: @system ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA IBM-J1.6 AdobeFlash-10.3 skype-eula" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--keep-going --usepkg --binpkg-respect-use=y --quiet-build --jobs --quiet-unmerge-warn --oneshot --autounmask=n --buildpkg-exclude virtual/* --buildpkg-exclude sys-kernel/*-sources" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news noinfo notitles parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms skiprocheck strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="ja" MAKEOPTS="-j10 -l5.0" PKGDIR="/var/portage/packages" PORTAGE_COMPRESS="" PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS="" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/marduk /var/lib/layman/gnome /usr/local/portage/gfxboot_overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 cjk introspection multilib nls pam unicode utf8" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="*" APACHE2_MODULES="auth_digest authn_file group_file dav dav_fs authz_groupfile" CAMERAS="*" CURL_SSL="openssl" DRACUT_MODULES="plymouth" ELIBC="glibc" FFTOOLS="*" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="ja" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel i915 i965" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= gnome-base/dconf-0.12.1 was built with the following: USE="X (multilib) -doc" ---
I seem to have had a stray symlink to /usr/bin/valac. Closing out.
As discussed on IRC, this was caused by manually adding /usr/bin/valac as a symlink to /usr/bin/valac-0.14 on a system that did not have vala:0.16 installed. For now, marking the bug as invalid. However, if we ever decide to add eselect-vala, this issue will have to be revisited.
