This is the error message that I recieved from a fresh install of Gentoo Linux. I installed some Gtk programs before I installed gnome 2 (grip, gimp and gaim) so here's my emerge --pretend gnome results root@mymachine mike # emerge --pretend gnome These are the packages that I would merge, in order. Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gdm-2.4.0.4 to / [ebuild N ] gnome-extra/gnome2-user-docs-2.0.0 to / [ebuild N ] gnome-base/ORBit2-2.4.0-r3 to / [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gconf-1.2.0-r4 to / [ebuild N ] gnome-base/eel-2.0.2 to / [ebuild N ] x11-wm/metacity-2.3.987-r2 to / [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.0.3 to / [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.0.2-r1 to / [ebuild N ] gnome-extra/gnome-games-2.0.1.1 to / [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.0.1 to / [ebuild N ] gnome-extra/gnome-media-2.0.0 to / [ebuild N ] gnome-extra/gnome-system-monitor-2.0.0-r1 to / [ebuild U ] net-libs/linc-0.5.1 to / [ebuild N ] gnome-extra/gnome-utils-2.0.1 to / [ebuild U ] gnome-base/librsvg-2.0.1 to / [ebuild N ] gnome-base/nautilus-2.0.2 to / [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-session-2.0.2-r1 to / [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-2.0.0-r2 to / And here's the error message "checking for gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 1.3.1 gtk+-2.0 >= 1.3.1 libgnome-2.0 >= 1.96.0... Package ORBit-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `ORBit-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable Package 'ORBit-2.0', required by 'libgnome', not found configure: error: Library requirements (gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 1.3.1 gtk+-2.0 >= 1.3.1 libgnome-2.0 >= 1.96.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them. !!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully. !!! Function src_compile, Line 48, Exitcode 1 !!! (no error message) !!! emerge aborting on /usr/portage/gnome-base/gdm/gdm-2.4.0.4.ebuild ."
similar problem here when doing a "emerge gnome" on a FRESH Gentoo 1.4 system GConf 1.2.1 can't build because its ./configure can't find ORBit-2.0. I emerged ORBit2 manually but the problem still exists.
gconf should be fixed, and gdm is fixed as well... Theese issues might pop up again from time to time due to some changed dependencies, hopefully we'll nail them all due time though. thanks for reporting, marking this as closed/fixed now.
