i have not installed emacs or xemacs on my system, but wanted to merge dev-tex/preview-latex-0.7.8. the process failed, cause preview-latex needs (x)emacs to compile. so please change the dependencies of this package. here is my error-message: nice -n 19 emerge preview-latex Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-tex/preview-latex-0.7.8 to / >>> Downloading http://gentoo.inode.at/distfiles/preview-latex-0.7.8.tar.gz --10:53:30-- http://gentoo.inode.at/distfiles/preview-latex-0.7.8.tar.gz => `/usr/portage/distfiles/preview-latex-0.7.8.tar.gz' Resolving gentoo.inode.at... 81.223.20.162 Connecting to gentoo.inode.at[81.223.20.162]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 236,683 [text/plain] 100%[====================================>] 236,683 174.97K/s 10:53:32 (174.51 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/preview-latex-0.7.8.tar.gz' sav ed [236683/236683] >>> md5 src_uri ;-) preview-latex-0.7.8.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking preview-latex-0.7.8.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/preview-latex-0.7.8 /work >>> Source unpacked. 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 whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking for emacs... no checking for xemacs... no configure: error: (X)Emacs not found! Aborting! !!! ERROR: dev-tex/preview-latex-0.7.8 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 365, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed
Fixed. Thanks for the bug report.