When I emerge X-Chat the xchat (or xchat-2) binary isn't installed, or any binary for that matter: >>> Merging net-irc/xchat-2.4.3 to / --- /usr/ --- /usr/lib/ >>> /usr/lib/xchat/ >>> /usr/lib/xchat/plugins/ >>> /usr/lib/xchat/plugins/tcl.la >>> /usr/lib/xchat/plugins/tcl.so >>> /usr/lib/xchat/plugins/python.la >>> /usr/lib/xchat/plugins/python.so >>> /usr/lib/xchat/plugins/perl.la >>> /usr/lib/xchat/plugins/perl.so --- /usr/share/ --- /usr/share/doc/ >>> /usr/share/doc/xchat-2.4.3/ >>> /usr/share/doc/xchat-2.4.3/README.gz >>> /usr/share/doc/xchat-2.4.3/ChangeLog.gz --- /usr/share/applications/ >>> /usr/share/applications/xchat.desktop --- /usr/share/pixmaps/ >>> /usr/share/pixmaps/xchat.png --- /usr/include/ >>> /usr/include/xchat/ >>> /usr/include/xchat/xchat-plugin.h >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... >>> net-irc/xchat-2.4.3 merged. >>> Recording net-irc/xchat in "world" favorites file... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge xchat Actual Results: X-Chat gets installed without the binary Expected Results: X-Chat should have been installed with the binary $ emerge xchat -pv [...] [ebuild R ] net-irc/xchat-2.4.3 +ipv6 (-mmx) +nls +perl +python +ssl +tcltk -xchatdccserver -xchatnogtk -xchattext 0 kB $ emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/ppc/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.11 ppc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11 ppc 7447A, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=7400 -maltivec -mabi=altivec" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=7400 -maltivec -mabi=altivec" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LINGUAS="en_US.utf8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local" SYNC="rsync://ftp.rhnet.is/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc X aac aalib acl aim alsa altivec apache2 audiofile bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 bzlib cddb cdparanoia cdr cjk crypt cups curl dba directfb divx4linux doc dvd eds effects emboss encode exif expat fam ffmpeg flac fortran gcj gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile iconv icq idn imagemagick imlib innodb ipv6 jabber jpeg jpeg2k kde latex lcms ldap libcaca libwww lua mad matroska mhash mng motif mozilla moznomail mozsvg mp3 mpeg msn mysql ncurses network nls nodrm objc offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl php plotutils plugin png posix postgres python qt readline rtc ruby samba sdl session soap sockets speex spell sqlite ssl svg svgz tcltk tcpd tetex theora tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb utf8 v4l v4l2 vorbis wmf xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xv xvid yahoo zeroconf zip zlib linguas_en_US.utf8 userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS
Resolving as INVALID, a GTK compile was in progress when the failiure happened and it doesn't happen after it was merged. ./configure didn't detect gtk as being installed, hence the gtk frontend wasn't built.
Marking as CLOSED.