I went to test Mozilla 1.3 which depends on virtuals/xft. I currently have xfree 4.2.1 installed. Portage assumed that I had the xft libs installed because virtuals/xft pointed to xfree. I wasn't aware that mozilla had an xft requiremnet until the configure failed. Portage should have reported this dependancy. What I suggest is that the virtuals have multiple options and/or include versions... so that virtuals/xft would point to >=xfree-4.3.0 or the plain xft. Or maybe it could check the PROVIDE of the currently installed version to see if it provides the virtual and if not the emerge fails gracefully. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install xfree-4.2.1-r2 2. Attempt to install mozilla-1.3-r1 Actual Results: mozilla build fails complaining about not being able to find xft Expected Results: showed xft as a dependancy Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-ck2 i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://psivamp.garjasp.com/pub http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" USE="x86 oss avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg mikmod mpeg ncurses pdflib png qt quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline tetex svga tcltk java mysql X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl python imlib oggvorbis gtk motif opengl -3dnow -apm -arts -kde -gnome -libg++ -mmx -nls alsa dga directfb fbcon flash gd gphoto2 imap mozilla perl pic samba tiff moznoirc moznomail moznocompose qtmt" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=i586 -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
That's something for the mozilla/xfree teams
Michael, xfree 4.2.1 certainly doesn't PROVIDE virtual/xft...did you previously have >=4.3.0-r2 installed? If so, it sounds like portage didn't update the virtuals correctly. Also to confirm, could you 'grep xft /var/cache/edb/virtuals'? Genone, I think the portage issue here is: What happens when one version provides a virtual, another doesn't, and people switch between the two? Does the virtual get added and removed in /var/cache/edb/virtuals appropriately? He should not have virtual/xft from <=xfree-4.3.0-r1. A similar issue happens with virtual/linux-sources when running multiple kernel sources.
If that's the case it's a dupe of bug 1891.
I'm not sure if this is still an issue or not, I've since rebuilt my system and refined things. This very well might have been a transitional bug between xfree and mozilla versions, in this case at least. What Donnie said seems to be the core of the problem, is virtuals not updating correctly. Looking at bug 1861, it seems that this is a duplicate of that one. You can resolve this one if you like.
correction... bug 1891... not 1861.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1891 ***
