emerging media-plugins/eq-xmms fails in case the directory for effect plugins for xmms does not exist. Creating the directories /usr/lib/xmms/Effect and /usr/lib/xmms/Plugins manually and running 'emerge -av media-plugins/eq-xmms' fixes the issue. I've tested this for eq-xmms-0.6-r1 and eq-xmms-0.7. emerge output: ============== checking for Effect plugin dir... /usr/lib/xmms/Effect checking for directory /usr/lib/xmms/Effect... no checking for directory /usr/lib/xmms/Plugins... no configure: error: *** No suitable plugin directory found. Use --libdir to specify. *** !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /var/tmp/portage/eq-xmms-0.6-r1/work/eq-xmms-0.6/config.log !!! ERROR: media-plugins/eq-xmms-0.6-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1539: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 939: Called src_compile ebuild.sh, line 606: Called econf ebuild.sh, line 541: Called die !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. emerge --info: ============== # emerge --info Portage 2.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-ck11 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-ck11 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 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-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -fomit-frame-pointers -fforce-addr -pipe -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -mcpu=athlon-xp -mfpmath=387,sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -fomit-frame-pointers -fforce-addr -pipe -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -mcpu=athlon-xp -mfpmath=387,sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="de_DE" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli cpudetection crypt cups dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kerberos libg++ libwww linuxthreads-tls mad mikmod mmext mmx motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev userlocales vorbis win32codecs xml xmms xorg xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux linguas_de linguas_en userland_GNU" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Solution to this would be to add two directories: mkdir /usr/lib/xmms/Effect /usr/lib/xmms/Plugins Therefore I would propose that something like: mkdir ${D}/usr/lib/xmms/Effect ${D}/usr/lib/xmms/Plugins Should be added into the xmms ebuild?
no... that directories should be created by xmms and not by eq-xmms. Btw... your CFLAGS are wrong... you should replace them by a new ones (more simple). Thanks
*** Bug 144337 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #2) > no... that directories should be created by xmms and not by eq-xmms. So do it? I don't understand how is this a CANTFIX.
xmms and all plugins are now package.masked and will be removed from the tree in one month. WONTFIX.