package x11-libs/qt-3.3.8b-r2 has been masked as tracked by bug 283429. Unfortuately, the kernel "make xconfig" requires qt-3. When I saw that qt-3 had become masked, I uninstalled x11-libs/qt-3.3.8b-r2. Then I tried "make xconfig" (tuxonice-sources-2.6.32-r5) aand got error messages. unmasking x11-libs/qt-3.3.8b-r2 and installing qt-3 corrected those errors. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -C x=11-libs/qt-3.3.8b-r2 2.cd /usr/src/linux 3. make xconfig Actual Results: zippy src # cd linux zippy linux # make xconfig Package qt-mt was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `qt-mt.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'qt-mt' found Package qt-mt was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `qt-mt.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'qt-mt' found Package qt-mt was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `qt-mt.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'qt-mt' found Package qt-mt was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `qt-mt.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'qt-mt' found HOSTCXX scripts/kconfig/qconf.o <snipped> (The full log to be attached) Expected Results: make xconfig should continue to work. Basically, until make xconfig works with qt-4, I can't see how it is possible to mask qt-3
Created attachment 221805 [details] xconfig error messages after unmerge of qt-3
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 133751 ***
Agreed that this bug is similar to the "duplicate". However, perhaps I did not make my point clear. The fact is that the kernel "make xconfig" does not work with qt-4. Therefore, I don't see how qt-3 can be masked or slated for removal from portage later in March 2010. That is why I created this bug as a blocker of the qt-3 removal tracking bug. (In reply to comment #2) > > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 133751 *** >
Read the comment is bug 301608 (and weep, if you want), which is too a dupe of bug 133751. Short of kernel upstream producing qt4 frontend, nothing can be done about it in Gentoo. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 133751 ***
