while "emerge system" the configure proc. of sys-libs/pam-0.77 stops with the error "checking path to cracklib dictionary... configure: error: none found". Cracklib is not installed and will be installed by emerge system 3 packages after sys-libs/pam. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. If you install cracklib (emerge sys-libs/cracklib) or edit the pam ebuild on /usr/portage/sys-libs/pam/pam-0.77.ebuild with DEPEND="$RDEPEND dev-lang/perl sys-libs/cracklib =dev-libs/glib-1.2* >=sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 >=sys-devel/automake-1.6 >=sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r5 pwdb? ( >=sys-libs/pwdb-0.62 )" My emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6. 7-gentoo-r14) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r14 i686 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3. 2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/ share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ / usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/ share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache keepwork sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ ftp://ftp. easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/media/cdrom" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"
That's an error in emerge then. cracklib is definetly specified under the DEPEND system and therefore should be put in before pam. Could you include emerge -p output that shows it wanting to install pam before cracklib?
sys-libs/pam: RDEPEND="sys-libs/cracklib" sys-libs/cracklib: DEPEND="sys-apps/miscfiles" sys-apps/miscfiles: DEPEND="sys-libs/glibc" sys-libs/glibc: RDEPEND="sys-apps/baselayout" sys-apps/baselayout: RDEPEND="sys-apps/util-linux" sys-apps/util-linux: DEPEND="sys-apps/pam-login" sys-apps/pam-login: DEPEND="sys-libs/pam" I haven't included versions and have resolved virtuals, but this is essentially the "cause". Portage doesn't not differentiate between DEPEND and RDEPEND, and also ignores any deps as soon as a circular dependency is found. Circular dependency resolution will be supported portage 2.0.51.
jstubbs: I don't see any reason that miscfiles needs glibc, so this could be cut off right there.
That won't be enough to solve this bug. For example, there is also sys-libs/cracklib -> sys-apps/portage -> sys-apps/sed -> sys-libs/glibc. The inter-dependencies within system are very intricate and there's many unlisted ones as well. If you want to remove some deps until portage supports the complexity, I'm fine with that.
I've removed the libc dep for now, after talking to the embedded folk that added it. Pablo: emerge sync and it should work for you, but to cut down on errors in general, go with the .51 series of portage.
I've merged cracklib yesterday before installing pam, and it worked (after having the problem, of course), that's why I made this bug report.
Err.. I somehow missed a word which changed the meaning. Circular dependency resolution will be supported AFTER portage 2.0.51. I have the code already but it's to late in the game to add it in for 2.0.51.
