Inkscape doesn't build on gcc 2.95.3. You probably know that, but it would be nice if you included gcc3 as a dependency so a gcc 2.95 user doesn't get an inelegant surprise. Also inkscape needs XML::Parser. And there's not dependency for it in the ebuild. Both of these cause the configure to fail. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-1.0, gcc-2.95.3, glibc-2.2.5-r9,2.2.5-r4, 2.6.4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.4 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.2.8 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/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=i686 -mcpu=i686 -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/gentoo/ http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr cjk crypt cups encode esd gdbm gif gnome-libs gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mikmod mmx motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline scanner sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype v4l v4l2 x86 xml2 xmms xv"
Thanks for the bug, I never tried it with gcc-2* ;) Dependencies are fixed in cvs. Cheers, Marc.