I use FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" in make.conf and now I have quite often the problem that ebuilds for packages using pkg-config in their configure fail. E.g. avidemux: checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config Failed to open '/usr/lib/pkgconfig/gtk+-2.0.pc': Permission denied No package 'gtk+-2.0' found ************ Cannot identify gtk2 version *************** configure: error: *** pkg-config installed incorrectly or gtk2-dev absent ! *** !!! ERROR: media-video/avidemux-2.0.24 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 365, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed # ls -al /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gtk+-2.0.pc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 330 May 27 11:17 /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gtk+-2.0.pc I have to use FEATURES="sandbox" to get the package to emerge correctly. Is this the only possible workaround? Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7-mm2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-mm2 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
hmm, I can't reproduce it here, portage devs, any hint?
are the pkgconfig files readable for your user -> are the dir permissions correct ?
Good hint: $ls -al /usr/lib/pkgconfig total 252 drw-r--r-- 2 root root 4096 Jul 8 18:54 . drwxr-xr-x 40 root root 24576 Jul 8 18:54 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Feb 23 18:20 ImageMagick++.pc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 523 Feb 23 18:20 ImageMagick.pc ... The files should be readable for everybody, but portage isnt allowed to change into the directory (forgot that x is responsible for dir-changing, not r). chmod 655 /usr/lib/pkgconfig fixed it, sorry for the noise. But shouldn't those permissions get fixed by portage the first time it runs unpriviliged? I remember seeing something like "Fixing permissions" the first time I started portage with userpriv.
Nope, and default ones are/ought to be, 0755
afaik those permissions should be right by default. We have one other bugreport with a similar problem, but we cannot pinpoint if it's local or not so we can't do much about it (non-reproducable).
