emerge gnome fails on my machine: grep: /var/tmp/portage/fontconfig-2.2.2/image/usr/lib/libfontconfig.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /var/tmp/portage/fontconfig-2.2.2/image/usr/lib/libfontconfig.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/var/tmp/portage/fontconfig-2.2.2/image/usr/lib/libfontconfig.la' is not a valid libtool archive make[4]: *** [libgnomeprintui-2-2.la] Error 1 [...] !!! ERROR: gnome-base/libgnomeprintui-2.4.2 failed. !!! Function gnome2_src_compile, Line 39, Exitcode 2 !!! compile failure NOTE: I have fontconfig-2.2.1 installed on my machine; why the reference to fontconfig-2.2.2?
try doing rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/* and try again
No, rm /var/tmp/portage/* doesn't work. emerging an older version of the package that fails linking and upgrading that to the current version solves the problem though.
you must've had fontconfig-2.2.2 at one point. I dunno what you did there. Anyway, it's libtool archive files we're b0rked and there's not much we can do about that if it isn't reproducable. closing not a bug.
