When emerging blackbox, the generated Makefile in blackbox-$version/utils/ reports 'nothing to do for "all"' despite bsetroot not having been compiled. For what it's worth, I also get this: Calculating dependencies >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking blackbox-0.65.0.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/blackbox-0.65.0-r4/work * Applying blackbox-0.65.0-mousewheel_focus-workspace.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying blackbox-gcc.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying disable_rootcommand.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying blackbox-0.65.0-gcc34.patch ... [ ok ] >>> Source unpacked. automake: configure.in: required file `./config.guess' not found automake: configure.in: required file `./config.sub' not found util/Makefile.am:8: bad macro name `_SOURCES' util/Makefile.am:9: bad macro name `_LDADD' util/Makefile.am:8: invalid unused variable name: `_SOURCES' util/Makefile.am:9: invalid unused variable name: `_LDADD' (...) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge blackbox 2. /usr/bin/bsetroot 3. Actual Results: /usr/bin/bsetroot doesn't exist; command obviously fails. =) Expected Results: set the background color of my desktop Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-gentoo-r10n i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r10n i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Python: dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5,dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Oct 31 2004, 01:39:21)] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r3 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt encode esd f77 fam font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb xml xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
bsetroot is supposed to be provided with commonbox-utils but it's really broken with gcc-3.4 and may have other problems. The old blackbox ebuilds are the only ones left depending on it afaik. 0.70.0 installs bsetroot.
Confirmed, with thanks. =)