Scrot 0.6 fails to build on my system. (0.8 builds fine) configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used. checking for a BSD compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for working aclocal... found checking for working autoconf... found checking for working automake... found checking for working autoheader... found checking for working makeinfo... found checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for executable suffix... checking for object suffix... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for a BSD compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for giblib-config... /usr/bin/giblib-config checking for giblib - version >= 1.2.1... yes checking for getopt_long... yes configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating scrot.spec config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating src/config.h Making all in src make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/scrot-0.6/work/scrot-0.6/src' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g -O3 -Wall -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -I. -DPREFIX=\""/usr"\" -I/usr/include/giblib -I/usr/X11R6/include -march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -c main.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g -O3 -Wall -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -I. -DPREFIX=\""/usr"\" -I/usr/include/giblib -I/usr/X11R6/include -march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -c getopt.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g -O3 -Wall -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -I. -DPREFIX=\""/usr"\" -I/usr/include/giblib -I/usr/X11R6/include -march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -c getopt1.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g -O3 -Wall -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -I. -DPREFIX=\""/usr"\" -I/usr/include/giblib -I/usr/X11R6/include -march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -c options.c main.c: In function `main': main.c:43: warning: implicit declaration of function `_estrdup' main.c:43: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast main.c:44: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast main.c:64: warning: implicit declaration of function `eprintf' options.c: In function `scrot_parse_option_array': options.c:87: warning: implicit declaration of function `_estrdup' options.c:87: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast options.c:130: warning: implicit declaration of function `weprintf' options.c: In function `name_thumbnail': options.c:147: warning: implicit declaration of function `_emalloc' options.c:147: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g -O3 -Wall -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -I. -DPREFIX=\""/usr"\" -I/usr/include/giblib -I/usr/X11R6/include -march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -c imlib.c main.c: In function `im_printf': main.c:494: warning: return makes pointer from integer without a cast main.c: In function `scrot_grab_shot_multi': main.c:570: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast imlib.c: In function `init_x_and_imlib': imlib.c:41: warning: implicit declaration of function `eprintf' gcc -march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -L/usr/X11R6/lib -o scrot main.o getopt.o getopt1.o options.o imlib.o -lX11 -L/usr/lib -lgiblib -L/usr/lib -lImlib2 -lfreetype -lm -ldl -lXext -lXext -lX11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lm main.o(.text+0x1bb): In function `main': /var/tmp/portage/scrot-0.6/work/scrot-0.6/src/main.c:89: undefined reference to `eprintf' main.o(.text+0x1cc):/var/tmp/portage/scrot-0.6/work/scrot-0.6/src/main.c:83: undefined reference to `eprintf' main.o(.text+0x1e1):/var/tmp/portage/scrot-0.6/work/scrot-0.6/src/main.c:72: undefined reference to `eprintf' main.o(.text+0x1f2):/var/tmp/portage/scrot-0.6/work/scrot-0.6/src/main.c:64: undefined reference to `eprintf' main.o(.text+0x22b):/var/tmp/portage/scrot-0.6/work/scrot-0.6/src/main.c:43: undefined reference to `_estrdup' main.o(.text+0x23c):/var/tmp/portage/scrot-0.6/work/scrot-0.6/src/main.c:44: undefined reference to `_estrdup' main.o(.text+0x5eb): In function `scrot_sel_and_grab_image': /var/tmp/portage/scrot-0.6/work/scrot-0.6/src/main.c:266: undefined reference to `eprintf' main.o(.text+0xbbe):/var/tmp/portage/scrot-0.6/work/scrot-0.6/src/main.c:184: undefined reference to `eprintf' main.o(.text+0xcd8): In function `im_printf': /var/tmp/portage/scrot-0.6/work/scrot-0.6/src/main.c:494: undefined reference to `_estrdup' main.o(.text+0x10ac): In function `scrot_grab_shot_multi': /var/tmp/portage/scrot-0.6/work/scrot-0.6/src/main.c:570: undefined reference to `_estrdup' options.o(.text+0x108): In function `scrot_parse_option_array': /var/tmp/portage/scrot-0.6/work/scrot-0.6/src/options.c:87: undefined reference to `_estrdup' options.o(.text+0x228):/var/tmp/portage/scrot-0.6/work/scrot-0.6/src/options.c:130: undefined reference to `weprintf' options.o(.text+0x251): In function `name_thumbnail': /var/tmp/portage/scrot-0.6/work/scrot-0.6/src/options.c:147: undefined reference to `_emalloc' imlib.o(.text+0x13d): In function `init_x_and_imlib': /var/tmp/portage/scrot-0.6/work/scrot-0.6/src/imlib.c:41: undefined reference to `eprintf' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [scrot] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/scrot-0.6/work/scrot-0.6/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 !!! ERROR: media-gfx/scrot-0.6 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 19, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r7 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.26) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.15 distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox sfperms userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.fi.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X alsa crypt gtk2 jpeg mmx ncurses oggvorbis opengl pam png sdl sse ssl truetype unicode x86" So i recommend making scrot 0.8 stable..
Scrot 0.6 is no longer available in portage as far as I can tell. Scrot 0.8 is the stable version in portage and bug submitter says scrot 0.8 builds fine and it also compiles for me. Looks like this bug is a good candidate for being closed.
0.6 hasn't been in portage for quite a while; closing.
