Building gnome-base/gnome (2.0) fails due to gnome-session-2.0.2 failing. I've attached the complete ebuild log below. ********** BEG ********* Calculating dependencies \|>>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking gnome-session-2.0.2.tar.bz2 >>> Source unpacked. [32;01m*[0m Working directory: /var/tmp/portage/gnome-session-2.0.2-r1/work/gnome-session-2.0.2... [32;01m*[0m Applying libtool-portage.patch... 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 whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for 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 strerror in -lcposix... no checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B checking whether ln -s works... yes checking how to recognise dependant libraries... pass_all checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... ok checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for strip... strip checking for objdir... .libs checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes checking whether the linker (/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no creating libtool checking for xrdb... /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb checking for glib-genmarshal... /usr/bin/glib-genmarshal checking what warning flags to pass to the C compiler... -Wall -Wunused -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations checking what language compliance flags to pass to the C compiler... checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking for esound >= 0.2.26... yes checking SOUND_TEST_CFLAGS... checking SOUND_TEST_LIBS... -lesd -laudiofile -lm checking for libgnomecanvas-2.0 >= 1.1 libgnomeui-2.0 >= 1.1 esound >= 0.2.26... yes checking GNOME_SESSION_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/libgnomecanvas-2.0 -I/usr/include/libart-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/libgnomeui-2.0 -I/usr/include/libgnome-2.0 -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/libbonoboui-2.0 -I/usr/include/orbit-2.0 -I/usr/include/libbonobo-2.0 -I/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/include -I/usr/include/linc-1.0 -I/usr/include/bonobo-activation-2.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 checking GNOME_SESSION_LIBS... -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgnomeui-2 -lSM -lICE -lbonoboui-2 -lgnomecanvas-2 -lgnome-2 -lart_lgpl_2 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangox-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lbonobo-2 -lgconf-2 -lgnomevfs-2 -lbonobo-activation -lORBit-2 -lxml2 -lz -llinc -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lgobject-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lpthread -lglib-2.0 -lesd -laudiofile -lm checking for libgnome-2.0... yes checking SMPROXY_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/libgnome-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/orbit-2.0 -I/usr/include/libbonobo-2.0 -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/include -I/usr/include/linc-1.0 -I/usr/include/bonobo-activation-2.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 checking SMPROXY_LIBS... -lgnome-2 -lbonobo-2 -lgconf-2 -lgnomevfs-2 -lbonobo-activation -lORBit-2 -lxml2 -lz -lm -llinc -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lgobject-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lpthread -lglib-2.0 checking for gconftool-2... /usr/bin/gconftool-2 Using config source xml::/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults for schema installation Using $(sysconfdir)/gconf/schemas/ as install directory for schema files checking for gconf-sanity-check-2... no ...done! >>> emerge gnome-base/gnome-session-2.0.2-r1 to / >>> md5 ;-) gnome-session-2.0.2.tar.bz2 !!! emerge aborting on /usr/portage/gnome-base/gnome-session/gnome-session-2.0.2-r1.ebuild . !!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully. !!! Function gnome2_src_configure, Line -5637, Exitcode 1 !!! ./configure failure ********** END *********
re-emerge gconf and it should work. it was a gconf bug where it had bad dependencies at some builds.
I just had this problem again on gnome 2.4 (gnome-session-2.4.0, gconf-2.4.0.1) checking for gconf-sanity-check-2... no configure: error: gconf-sanity-check-2 executable not found in your path - should be installed with GConf Remerging gconf fixed it.
