Created attachment 374856 [details] output of 'emerge --info gnome-base/gvfs' when building gnome-base/gvfs with the samba use flag, gvfs silently irgnores, that samba integration can not be enabled. Configure shows the result: ... checking for SMBCLIENT... yes checking libsmbclient.h usability... yes checking libsmbclient.h presence... yes checking for libsmbclient.h... yes checking for SMBCCTX.flags... yes checking for SMBCCTX.close... no checking for smbc_option_get in -lsmbclient... no checking for smbc_new_context in -lsmbclient... no checking for Samba 3.0 libraries... no ... Samba support: no I am using a ABI_X86="64 32" multilib installation.
Created attachment 374858 [details] output of 'emerge --info net-fs/samba'
Created attachment 374862 [details] output of 'emerge -pqv gnome-base/gvfs'
Created attachment 374864 [details] output of 'emerge -pqv net-fs/samba'
Created attachment 374866 [details] output of 'emerge -1 gnome-base/gvfs'
I cannot reproduce :/, it detects samba properly here
Without (at minimum) config.log, this won't get very far.
Reminds me of an old report.
I found the solution. It was a broken library.