i did an "emerge glib" which fails with errors because wrong version of pkg-config. It checks for version 0.14 or higher altough 0.15.00 is installed it fails. I tried to reinstall 0.15.00 and downgraded to 0.14 nothing helped. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge glib 2.emerge -u pkg-config 3.emerged old version 4.emerge glib -> failed Actual Results: can't install glib because of "wrong" version of pkg-config Expected Results: accept the new pkg-config 0.15.00 portage 2.0.51.18 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Oct 24 2004, 02:42:32)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r5 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.14.90.0.8-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.2-r5 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.22-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -Os -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 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/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -Os -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ http://gentoo.linux.no/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups emboss encode f77 fbcon font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg kde libg++ libwwwmad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls nvidia oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
How about posting the actual build error.