The ./configure script ends with: checking for ffi... checking for FFI... no configure: error: ffi requested, but not found Apparently, the script looks for libffi. But if gcc is built with USE=libffi (which it is here), the library is included with gcc, so it should find that version instead. (Also, dev-libs/libffi is masked, see #163724.) pygobject-2.15.4 builds fine, although it does warn that a configure option to check for libffi is unknown. -------- Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1, 2.6.28-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6700_@_2.66GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p48 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.3.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--nospinner --with-bdeps y --alphabetical" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac accessibility acpi alisp alsa amd64 amr amrnb amrwb ao archive asyncns audiofile bash-completion bios bluetooth boost branding bzip2 cairo calendar captury cdda cdio cgraph chm cli context cracklib crypt css curl cyrillic dbus dhcp dirac djbfft djvu doc dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread dynamic eap-tls emovix encode exif extra extrafilters fam fame fbcondecor ffmpeg fftw firefox fits flac fluidsynth fontconfig fpx games gd gdbm gif git glitz gnuplot gnutls graphics graphviz gsgtk hal hdri hpn htmlhandbook humanities hyperestraier ical iconv icu id3tag idea idn imagemagick inotify ipv6 isdnlog ithreads java java6 javascript jbig jce joystick jpeg jpeg2k jsapi kde kig-scripting kipi kpathsea ktts ladspa lame latex lcms libass libedit libffi libgcrypt libnotify libssh2 libwww lm_sensors lzo mad matroska mbrola midi mjpeg mmap mmx mmxext mng mod modplug mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib musepack music ncurses network network-cron nls nptl nptlonly nuv odbc offensive ogg omega openal openexr opengl openmp oscar pam pango paste64 pcre pdf pg-intdatetime plotutils png portaudio postgres ppds pppd pstricks pth publishers pulseaudio python qemu qt3support qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline redland reflection rle rtsp sasl schroedinger science sdl sdl-image session slang smp sndfile sound soundtouch speex spell spl sql sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification stream subversion svg symlink sysfs theora threads tiff toolbar truetype unicode usb utempter vamp vcd vlc vlm vnc vorbis vorbis-psy wavpack webkit wideband wifi wmf x264 xcb xcomposite xetex xforms xml xmp xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zip zlib zrtp" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magicnegotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Looks like you beat me to it by 4 bugs! 5:) I've marked yours as a duplicate of the other to save work for the bug-wranglers (I've assigned the other directly to the relevant parties)... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 255488 ***
Thanks :) It doesn't matter who was first as long as the problem gets fixed.
