Hi, I'm not expecting that I can get a simple answer to this so I'm posting one of very many errors I'm seeing now. Please excuse the nature of my frustration here. I'm venting at this point.
<RANT> I've been messing with a standard x86, middle of the road Gentoo machine for over two days now. There must be 20 or 30 packages that won't build. Frustrating. I've updated portage and emerge -DuN system installed clean the first time. Most of the problems are in and around getting Gnome updated. Typical of the problem, but definitely not limited to this, is the following sort of message. Unfortunately every one of the failing packages is giving different messages so there's nothing obvious to me here. 1-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lrsvg-2 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 -lxml2 -lart_lgpl_2 -lXi -lX11 mkdir .libs libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la' or unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la' make[4]: *** [gdmgreeter] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gdm-2.18.4/work/gdm-2.18.4/gui/greeter' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gdm-2.18.4/work/gdm-2.18.4/gui/greeter' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gdm-2.18.4/work/gdm-2.18.4/gui' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gdm-2.18.4/work/gdm-2.18.4' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: gnome-base/gdm-2.18.4 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1638: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 985: Called qa_call 'src_compile' ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile ebuild.sh, line 1328: Called gnome2_src_compile gnome2.eclass, line 71: Called die !!! compile failure !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. !!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gdm-2.18.4/temp/build.log'. What a mess! I've never in over 6 years of using Gentoo ever seen things in worse shape. Two days of this. No fun. I do think that a good part of this problem is more of the expat stuff. I had hoped it would be fixed up in portage before I got around to working on this machine but with upcoming death of the older versions of MythTV and the requirements to go to newer versions I had to get to work. Bummer. 2 days work and no end in sight. </RANT> I don't suppose anyone is really still reading but if you are and have some idea what's gone wrong here please let me know. I'm lost. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
