Trying to merge gnome-vfs-2.8.3 generates an error regarding libbonobo-2.0 not being found. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. # emerge gnome-vfs 2. 3. Actual Results: # emerge gnome-vfs >>> Unpacking gnome-vfs-2.8.3-updated_hal_support.patch to /var/tmp/portage/gnom e-vfs-2.8.3-r1/work unpack gnome-vfs-2.8.3-updated_hal_support.patch: file format not recognized. Ig noring. ...[snip] checking MODULES_XML_GCONF_LIBS... -Wl,--export-dynamic -pthread -lxml2 -lpthrea d -lz -lgconf-2 -lORBit-2 -lm -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 checking for libbonobo-2.0 >= 2.0.0 gobject-2.0 >= 2.0.0... Package libbonobo-2. 0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libbonobo-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'libbonobo-2.0' found configure: error: Library requirements (libbonobo-2.0 >= 2.0.0 gobject-2.0 >= 2. 0.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you r libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them. !!! ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.8.3-r1 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 449, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Expected Results: successful gnome-vfs merge. libbonobo is installed. I think it's 2.8.0 Script started on Sat Jan 1 21:11:03 2005 Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.4.26-gentoo-r14 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26-gentoo-r14 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.50GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/ config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/ config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acl apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups encode fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 ipv6 jpeg kde libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readlin e sdl spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib"
tried remerging libbonobo ?
Okay. re-emerging libbonobo worked. no idea why, but...
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