libglade-2.4.0 fails to build as follows. Emergeing pango fixes it. checking for libxml-2.0 >= 2.4.10 atk >= 1.0.0 gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4.0 glib-2.0 >= 2.4.0... Package pangoxft was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `pangoxft.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable Package 'pangoxft', required by 'GDK', not found configure: error: Library requirements ( libxml-2.0 >= 2.4.10 atk >= 1.0.0 gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4.0 glib-2.0 >= 2.4.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them. !!! ERROR: gnome-base/libglade-2.4.0 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 426, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed
Hmm, something is strange on your system: libglade depends on gtk+ >= 2.4.0 gtk+ depends on pango So, this "doesn't happen" and we don't set specific dependencies becase gtk+ is a hard one that blankets the others. So, I'd presume your system has in some way had packages torn out from below.
Ok, looks like I've found yet another depclean bug. Sorry guys...