My system had itstool --depclean'ed out and so when I cam to emerge empathy, the build failed. After manually installing itstool, the build succeeded. ... checking Mission Control plugins dir... /usr/lib64/mission-control-plugins.0 checking for itstool... no configure: error: itstool not found !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: !!! /var/tmp/portage/net-im/empathy-3.6.2-r1/work/empathy-3.6.2/config.log * ERROR: net-im/empathy-3.6.2-r1 failed (configure phase): * econf failed * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 93: Called src_configure ... Portage 2.2.0_alpha145 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.7.2, glibc-2.16.0, 3.6.8-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.6.8-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9550_@_2.83GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 18:30:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p39 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.27.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r5::gnome sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.6 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.16.0 Repositories: gentoo gnome marduk ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA IBM-J1.6 AdobeFlash-10.3 skype-eula" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -g0 -march=nocona -mtune=corei7-avx -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="${EPREFIX}/etc/gconf /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/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g0 -march=nocona -mtune=corei7-avx -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=" --autounmask=n --binpkg-respect-use=y --buildpkg-exclude virtual/* --jobs --keep-going --misspell-suggestions=n --oneshot --quiet-build --quiet-unmerge-warn --usepkg " FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg config-protect-if-modified distlocks fixlafiles merge-sync news noinfo notitles parallel-fetch parallel-install protect-owned sandbox sfperms skiprocheck strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j2" 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/gnome /var/lib/layman/marduk" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acpi aes amd64 aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx bts cjk clflush cmov constant_tsc cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts eagerfpu epb ept erms est f16c flexpriority fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht ida introspection lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr multilib nls nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pam pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts rdrand rdtscp rep_good sep smep smx ss sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_deadline_timer unicode utf8 vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="*" APACHE2_MODULES="auth_digest authn_file group_file dav dav_fs authz_groupfile" CAMERAS="*" CURL_SSL="openssl" DRACUT_MODULES="lvm" ELIBC="glibc" FFTOOLS="*" GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="ja" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel i915 i965 modesetting" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
Fixed, thanks for reporting! > From 8ea377505bc10ea3ae29804cf7d9aa70aac712e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@gentoo.org> > Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 18:03:28 -0500 > Subject: [PATCH] net-im/empathy: don't require itstool in tarball builds (#446510) > > Thanks to Albert W. Hopkins for reporting, bug #446510.
