emerge gnome-libs (needed by "grass" GIS application) fails: ./.libs/libgnome.so: undefined reference to `libiconv_open' ./.libs/libgnome.so: undefined reference to `libiconv' libiconv is part of glibc. Separately emerging libiconv is discouraged and at this point is masked. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge gnome-libs 2. 3. Actual Results: ./.libs/libgnome.so: undefined reference to `libiconv_open' ./.libs/libgnome.so: undefined reference to `libiconv' and !!! ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 69, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) USE="-nls -apm -gpm -spell doc java tcltk postgres mmx sse -kde -arts -alsa -oss" Expected Results: It should have successfully emerged gnome-libs
why is every freaking bug coming without 'emerge info' while it is in the bugreport form ? & post some more output, please, please be verbose... we are not sensing problems here.
Spurious /usr/local/include/iconv.h discovered without a /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so