I'll admit that I have a rather extreme, minimal USE flags... reemergeing the entire system broke gdm-2.6.0.4-r1 so I reemerged it. It failed because it couldn't find a file from libgsf. Emergeing libgsf and then gdm worked. "emerge -e world | grep gsf" gives nothing Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. USE="-* pam threads" emerge gdm Portage 2.0.51_rc9 (default-linux/x86/2004.2/gcc34, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20041006-r0, 2.6.8-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1900+ 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="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -fweb -ftracer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -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/init.d /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -fweb -ftracer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 pam threads linguas_en" john@newkid ~ $ cat /etc/portage/package.use sys-libs/glibc nptl nptlonly userlocales sys-apps/module-init-tools no-old-linux media-libs/win32codecs quicktime media-video/mplayer mmx mmx2 3dnow 3dnowex sse rtc X xv xvmc alsa mpeg dvd divx4linux xvid x11-base/xorg-x11 3dnow mmx sse dev-util/subversion berkdb apache2 net-www/mozilla gnome gtk2 moznocompose moznoirc moznomail net-www/mozilla-firefox gnome gtk2 dev-php/mod_php session apache2 mysql mysqli pcre tidy simplexml xml2 xsl net-www/mplayerplug-in gtk2 games-fps/enemy-territory opengl net-im/gaim evo app-editors/gvim gtk gtk2 gnome media-gfx/gimp jpeg mmx png sse svg gnome-base/gnome-applets gstreamer media-libs/gst-plugins alsa gnome-base/nautilus gstreamer gnome-base/control-center alsa gstreamer gnome-base/gnome cdr hal x11-misc/xscreensaver gnome gtk gtk2 offensive opengl pam media-sound/awesfx alsa media-fonts/terminus-font X sys-libs/ncurses unicode
Considered the fact you want to use gdm I really think you shoul reevaluate your USE-flags strategy. Anyway, reassigning to herd.
you fail to mention the error you got & gdm itself does not dep on libgsf, so with that this report is useless.
I'm sorry, the error got cleared from the screen buffer of the console after I fixed it. I was hoping you'd have some ideas towards the dependencies. I'll try to reproduce it... In the mean time, about the use flags: It's a test. I was wondering how hard it would be to make global USE flags obsolete. Why? By removing global useflags, the global use-flag-namespace is unnecesary and that is an important step towards decentralizing portage. So far "pam" is the only useflag I didn't dare to remove from global. ("threads" is just the part in me who like to break stuff). Also I think that packages that has useflags that should be enabled by default should state that in the ebuild. From a administartion point of view it's no big deal. You can see that my pacakge.use isn't that big. ... AH! Reproduced, here: /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=athlon-xp -O3 -fweb -ftracer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -o gdmgreeter greeter.o greeter_action_language.o greeter_canvas_item.o greeter_events.o greeter_geometry.o greeter_item.o greeter_item_timed.o greeter_item_capslock.o greeter_item_clock.o greeter_item_pam.o greeter_item_ulist.o greeter_item_customlist.o greeter_parser.o greeter_session.o greeter_system.o -L../../gui -lgdmwm -lgdmcommon -L../../vicious-extensions -lviciousui-minimal -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -Wl,--export-dynamic -lgnomecanvas-2 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangox-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lrsvg-2 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 -lxml2 -lpthread -lz -lm -lart_lgpl_2 mkdir .libs libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libgsf-1.la' make[4]: *** [gdmgreeter] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gdm-2.6.0.4-r1/work/gdm-2.6.0.4/gui/greeter' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gdm-2.6.0.4-r1/work/gdm-2.6.0.4/gui/greeter' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gdm-2.6.0.4-r1/work/gdm-2.6.0.4/gui' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gdm-2.6.0.4-r1/work/gdm-2.6.0.4' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 Steps to reproduce. emerge unmerge libgsf && emerge gdm
"Steps to reproduce. emerge unmerge libgsf && emerge gdm" Those aren't really steps to reporduce your problem, they are the steps that cause it. When something has been linked against a lib, it will fail when you pull that lib from the system. That doesn't mean that libgsf is a required dep, because gdm will compile fine if it isn't there, but not if it has already linked against it. I guess its more of a user responsibility issue one you start uninstalling packages like that.
see comment #4, the culprit here is probably librsvg. And i think making global USE flags obsolete is a bad idea to begin with, but that's not something to discuss any further in this bug.
