note i am using 2005.0 profile and following ~x86. nedit needs motif and isnt configured to depend on any motif packages. this is easy to fix, the other bug i cannot describe any better than this and would appreciate pointers for future reporting so i can next time: my system already had openmotif-2.2 installed by something. i emerged motif-config and executed it: motif-config -s openmotif-2.2 however it wasnt configured right: delta ~ # ls /usr/include/openmotif-2.2 ls: /usr/include/openmotif-2.2: Too many levels of symbolic links delta ~ # ls -lad /usr/include/openmotif-2.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Mar 26 15:49 /usr/include/openmotif-2.2 -> /usr/include/openmotif-2.2/openmotif-2.2 i am unsure if this was caused by motif-config or the package that had supposedly merged motif previously. i rmd the symlink but openmotif-2.2 seemed to think its include files were installd there. infact they were nowhere on my system - i never directly merged openmotif so something that depends on it must have screwed it up. as a hint of what might have caused it to be messed up like it was: delta ~ # equery -D depends openmotif [ Searching for packages depending on openmotif... ] app-text/xpdf-3.00-r8 i have never used this package and cannot verify it ever worked - but it might be worth looking into.. QUICK FIX FOR OTHERS EXPERENCING THIS PROBLEM: emerge motif-config emerge -C openmotif; emerge openmotif motif-config -s openmotif-2.2 your version of motif might not be openmotif-2.2, execute: motif-config -l for a list of versions.
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83018 ***