Bug 293495 – x11-libs/libX11-1.3.2 fails to build without x11-libs/libXext

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Francesco Cusolito 2009-11-17 12:29:16 UTC]

x11-libs/libX11-1.3.2 needs x11-libs/libXext at build time or the build will fail with

gs: error while loading shared libraries: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This should be a problem in dependencies

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Clean the system from xorg-server
2. Try to emerge libX11

Actual Results:  
Building libX11 fails with error

gs: error while loading shared libraries: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Expected Results:  
libX11 should compile correctly.

manually emerging libXext (i've tried with libXext-1.1.1) before try to emerge libX11 make the things going right

[Comment 1 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-11-17 22:12:22 UTC]

libX11's doc building is somewhat automagic. Please move "gs" away from /usr/bin (or wherever it is) to /root and try rebuilding libX11 again.

Thanks

[Comment 2 Bjoern Rennhak 2009-12-01 14:57:42 UTC]

Comment #1 didn't work for me. A USE="-doc" did though.

echo "x11-libs/libX11 -doc" >> /etc/portage/package.use

Cheers