For some reason icedta forces me to have cups installed, moreover requires non-existing ghostscript-gpl[cups] to be installed. This is a Gentoo:prefix install on a glibc-2.12 RedHat system. $ emerge -pv dev-java/icedtea These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.09[cups]". (dependency required by "net-print/cups-filters-9999::gentoo_prefix[postscript]" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "net-print/cups-9999::gentoo_prefix" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "dev-java/icedtea-7.2.6.6::gentoo_prefix" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "dev-java/icedtea" [argument]) $ emerge --info Portage 2.2.28-prefix (python 2.7.11-final-0, prefix/linux/amd64, gcc-5.3.0, unavailable, 2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.Bull.88.x86_64 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.Bull.88.x86_64-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E5-2670_0_@_2.60GHz-with-redhat-6.4-Santiago KiB Mem: 131942764 total, 7976964 free KiB Swap: 65536128 total, 65536128 free Timestamp of repository gentoo_prefix: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 21:57:51 +0000 sh bash 4.3_p39 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.3) 2.24 app-shells/bash: 4.3_p39::gentoo_prefix dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r3::gentoo_prefix dev-lang/perl: 5.24.0-r1::gentoo_prefix dev-lang/python: 2.7.11::gentoo_prefix dev-util/cmake: 3.5.2-r1::gentoo_prefix dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.1::gentoo_prefix sys-devel/autoconf: 2.69::gentoo_prefix sys-devel/automake: 1.13.4::gentoo_prefix, 1.14.1::gentoo_prefix, 1.15::gentoo_prefix sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r2::gentoo_prefix sys-devel/gcc: 4.2.4-r2::gentoo_prefix, 4.8.5::gentoo_prefix, 4.9.3::gentoo_prefix, 5.3.0::gentoo_prefix sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8-r1::gentoo_prefix sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r1::gentoo_prefix sys-devel/make: 4.2.1::gentoo_prefix sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.6::gentoo_prefix (virtual/os-headers) Repositories: gentoo_prefix location: /scratch/mmokrejs/gentoo/usr/portage sync-type: webrsync sync-uri: webrsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 aliases: gentoo science location: /scratch/mmokrejs/gentoo/var/lib/layman/science masters: gentoo_prefix priority: 0 haskell location: /scratch/mmokrejs/gentoo/var/lib/layman/haskell masters: gentoo_prefix priority: 1 x-layman location: /scratch/mmokrejs/gentoo/var/lib/layman masters: gentoo_prefix priority: 2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64-linux" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -O2 -pipe -march=native" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -O2 -pipe -march=native" DISTDIR="/scratch/mmokrejs/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs case-insensitive-fs collision-protect config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles force-prefix merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans unprivileged userfetch userpriv usersync" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.wheel.sk/ http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.web4u.cz/ rsync://gentoo.mirror.dkm.cz/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.mirror.web4u.cz/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/scratch/mmokrejs/gentoo/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/scratch/mmokrejs/gentoo/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/scratch/mmokrejs/gentoo/var/tmp" USE="amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cxx doc dri fortran gdbm iconv ipv6 man mmx mmxext modules ncurses nls nptl openmp pcre prefix prefix-guest readline seccomp session sse sse2 ssl tcpd unicode zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby20 ruby21" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu fbdev intel nouveau radeon radeonsi vesa dummy v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" USE_PYTHON="2.7" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS $
It is not possible to build IcedTea from source without CUPS, even if you don't intend to use it as this functionality is embedded within the AWT library. The situation was previously even worse in that we hard-required it even at runtime. It now falls back to dlopen at runtime if you disable the cups flag. Fixing this is not trivial and we're hoping that Red Hat (upstream) will address it but this is not an issue for them as RHEL is obviously a binary distribution. The situation may change with Java 9, which has had significant restructuring.
