When I run "emerge -vua x11-wm/sawfish", it starts checking the build environment but then spurts.... ... <snipped> ... checking for rep-gtk >= 0.17... no configure: error: You need rep-gtk version 0.17+ !!! ERROR: x11-wm/sawfish-1.3.20040120 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 362, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed ...and gentoo root # emerge -s rep-gtk Searching... [ Results for search key : rep-gtk ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * x11-libs/rep-gtk Latest version available: 0.18 Latest version installed: 0.18 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -vua x11-wm/sawfish 2.(that's it) 3. Actual Results: checking for rep-gtk >= 0.17... no configure: error: You need rep-gtk version 0.17+ !!! ERROR: x11-wm/sawfish-1.3.20040120 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 362, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed ...and I have that library (0.18) installed Expected Results: install sawfish window manager Portage 2.0.50-r10 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.8-gentoo-r3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.zie.pg.gda.pl ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo rsync://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi alsa arts avi berkdb cdr crypt dvd emacs emacs-w3 encode esd ethereal foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imap imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png pnp python quicktime readline samba sasl sdl spell ssl svga tcpd truetype usb x86 xml2 xmms xv xwindows zlib"
After some serious debugging everything seemed to be correct - however the ebuild still did not work. I rebuilt the whole dependecy chain with emerge -ave x11-wm/sawfish and now everything works. Case closed.