I updated to dev-libs/libffi-3.4.1-r1. SableVM asks for >=dev-libs/libffi-1.20 The libs for libffi gets installed in directory /usr/lib/libffi instead of the previous /usr/lib. Therefore SableVM cannot find them: checking whether a program can dlopen itself... (cached) yes checking whether a statically linked program can dlopen itself... (cached) yes appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool checking for ffi_prep_cif in -lffi... no ***ERROR: libffi is missing !!! ERROR: dev-java/sablevm-1.1.6 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 449, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Note: I see that in the SableVM ebuild: use amd64 && export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/usr/lib/libffi" CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I/usr/include/libffi" So either libffi not installed right location on x86 or this should be changed for more archs. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51_rc9 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20041006-r0, 2.6.8-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 distcc 2.18 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer" 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/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr emacs encode esd f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"
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Or you can just do # ln -s /usr/lib/libffi/libffi.so /usr/lib/libffi.so if you don't want to update.
