Running 'emerge kde' on a new 1.2 build and receiving following errors during kdelibs emerge - /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: qtver-from-kdever: command not found /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: need-qt: command not found /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: set-kdedir: command not found /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: kde_sandbox_patch: command not found /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: qtver-from-kdever: command not found /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: need-qt: command not found /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: set-kdedir: command not found configure: error: The important program mcopidl was not found! Please check whether you installed KDE correctly. !!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully. !!! Function econf, Line 9, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed From searching the Forums I've discovered that mcopidl is provided by the arts package. However, arts appears to have installed correctly. I came across some suggestions that appears to have worked for others - http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=13819 but no joy for me. My PC (PII, Creative Soundblaster) has a soundcard and I've enabled support in the kernel. During my investigations I've not come across any mention of the command not found errors from the e-build script and I'm not sure if they are relevant or not.
its looks like you have a portage issue ... need-qt and such are provided by the kde eclasses ... try this out: `emerge rsync ; emerge portage -u ; emerge kde`
Thanks a lot for the nudge in the right direction. I'd already tried an emerge rsync, so I ran emerge portage -u. When I then emerge'd kde the 'command not found' errors went away but it still failed at the configure stage in the same way. So I figured that the arts ebuild may not have completed correctly due to the portage issue and so I emerge'd arts again (and alsa too, just in case). I left that running over night and when I tried kdelibs this morning, it got throught the configure stage and was happly compiling when I left. I'd posted in the Desktop Forum about this - I'll update that post in the hope that it'll help some other confused soul. Thanks again for your help, Andrew.
