Before gdbm installed: checking zlib.h usability... yes checking zlib.h presence... yes checking for zlib.h... yes checking for gzopen in -lz... yes checking gdbm.h usability... no checking gdbm.h presence... no checking for gdbm.h... no configure: error: zinf needs GDBM installed !!! ERROR: media-sound/zinf-2.2.5-r1 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 365, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed root@cloak hollywoodb # emerge -s gdbm Searching... [ Results for search key : gdbm ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * sys-libs/gdbm Latest version available: 1.8.0-r5 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 130 kB Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/gdbm.html Description: Standard GNU database libraries included for compatibility with Perl License: GPL-2 After gdbm installed: checking zlib.h usability... yes checking zlib.h presence... yes checking for zlib.h... yes checking for gzopen in -lz... yes checking gdbm.h usability... yes checking gdbm.h presence... yes checking for gdbm.h... yes checking for gdbm_open in -lgdbm... yes checking for iconv... yes checking for iconv declaration... and it continues on fine... not sure where I lost gdbm, but zinf didn't like it. Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.4.20040605-r0, 2.6.7-rc3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-rc3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -mcpu=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" 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/sh are/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -mcpu=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/ ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gen too/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/bmg-main" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aim alsa avi berkdb cddb cdr chroot clamav cups dillo dvd encode fbcon flac foomaticdb gif gphoto2 gtk gtk2 icq imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 ipv6 java jpeg libwww mad mmx motif mozdomi mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg msn ncurses nls nopsyco nptl oav offensive oggvorbis opengl operanom2 oscar pdflib pic png ppds quicktime readline samba sdl ss e ssl tiff transcode truetype usb x86 xface xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv xvid yahoo zlib" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. no gdbm 2. emerge zinf-2.2.5-r1 3. Actual Results: failed with gdbm
fixed in portage. thanks for the note.