When trying to emerge media-video/transcode (any version), the compilation fails with the error: make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/transcode-0.6.11/work/transcode-0.6.11/import' /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link g++ -march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4 -ffast-math -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -o af6_decore.la -rpath /usr/lib/transcode -module -avoid-version af6_decore.lo ioaux.lo -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -laviplay -lstdc++ -lm -lpthread -ldl grep: /usr/kde/3.1/lib/libartsc.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/kde/3.1/lib/libartsc.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/kde/3.1/lib/libartsc.la' is not a valid libtool archive I don't have KDE 3.1 installed. Transcode doesn't seem to depend on KDE in any way. Nothing in the Transcode sources refer to KDE or aRts at all. This looks like a libtool bug, but I don't know why it only happens with Transcode. This confuses me a lot, and I don't even know which additional information I could provide. Please let me know what else I can do to investigate this odd bug. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge transcode Emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.6-rc1-mm1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.6-rc1-mm1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.9 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4 -fPIC -ffast-math" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4 -fPIC -ffast-math" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow S3TC X aalib acl acpi adns alsa amd apm arts artswrappersuid autofs avi berkdb bonobo cdr clamav crypt cscope cups curl dga doc dv dvd dvdr encode esd ethereal evms2 expat faad fam fastcgi ffmpeg flac flash fluidsynth foomaticdb foreign-package foreign-sysvinit gb gd gd-external gdbm geoip ggi gif gimpprint glut gmtfull gmthigh gmtsuppl gmttria gnome gphoto2 gpm gps gstreamer gtk2 gtkhtml guile hbci imap imlib innodb ipalias jack jack-caps java jikes jpeg kde ladcca ldap libg++ libwww lufsusermount mad maildir mbox mcal md5sum mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg music mysql nas ncurses net nls oav odbc offensive ofx oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcap pda pdflib perl php pic plotutils png ppds psyco python qt quicktime radeon readline ruby samba sasl scanner sdl slang slp snmp sox speex spell sqlite sse ssl stencil-buffer stroke tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff transcode truetype usb videos vim-with-x wmf wxwin wxwindows x86 xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib"
Fixed somehow by re-emerging avifile. I still don't understand!