After a fresh install from the 1.4rc1 cd, also having emerge rsynced and using the default USE vars. I gave the following command: emerge mozilla fluxbox nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx kde It ended with the following error: <snap> checking for SSL_new in -lssl... yes checking for cupsPrintFiles in -lcups... no configure: error: Cannot find CUPS libraries (libcups) !!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully. !!! Function econf, Line 9, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed All the emerged packages except KDE were on my system. My guess would be that KDE wants gimp-print and then cups, however gimp-print needs cups to build. emerge-ing the both with -p gives: emerge -p kde : [ebuild N ] media-gfx/gimp-print-4.2.1 to / [ebuild N ] app-text/ghostscript-7.05.5 to / [ebuild N ] net-print/cups-1.1.15-r2 to / [ebuild N ] x11-libs/qt-3.0.5-r2 to / [ebuild N ] app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r2 to / [ebuild N ] sys-libs/lib-compat-1.0-r2 to / [ebuild N ] sys-devel/ld.so-1.9.11-r2 to / [ebuild N ] kde-base/kde-env-3-r2 to / [ebuild N ] kde-base/arts-1.0.3 to / [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libxslt-1.0.20 to / [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.0.3a to / [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdepim-3.0.3 to / [ebuild N ] media-libs/libogg-1.0 to / [ebuild N ] media-libs/libvorbis-1.0-r1 to / [ebuild N ] dev-lang/nasm-0.98.34 to / [ebuild N ] media-sound/lame-3.92 to / [ebuild N ] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.2-r1 to / [ebuild N ] media-sound/cdparanoia-3.9.8 to / [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdebase-3.0.3 to / [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdeartwork-3.0.3 to / [ebuild N ] media-video/xanim-2.80.1-r4 to / [ebuild N ] media-sound/mpg123-0.59r-r1 to / [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.0.3 to / [ebuild N ] media-libs/svgalib-1.4.3-r1 to / [ebuild N ] media-libs/libsdl-1.2.4.20020601 to / [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdenetwork-3.0.3 to / [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdeaddons-3.0.3 to / [ebuild N ] app-arch/rpm-4.0.4-r3 to / [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdeadmin-3.0.3 to / [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdegames-3.0.3 to / [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdetoys-3.0.3 to / [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdegraphics-3.0.3 to / [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdeedu-3.0.3 to / [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdeutils-3.0.3 to / [ebuild N ] kde-base/kde-3.0.3a to / emerge gimp-print : [ebuild N ] app-text/ghostscript-7.05.5 to / [ebuild N ] net-print/cups-1.1.15-r2 to / [ebuild N ] media-gfx/gimp-print-4.2.1 to / Conclusion, emerge kde fails emerge gimp-print first, and then emerge kde resolved the problem for me. Sorry for the overload of information. Cheers, Thomas.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8472 ***
