econf Fails on KDE emerge

[tilleyrw]

Warning: I'm a beginning Gentoo n00b who wants a faster Linux box.

After recompiling qt:3 with "opengl" support (as requested by kdenetwork), I now receive the following response to "emerge kde":

* Messages for package kde-base/kdenetwork-3.5.9:
*
* ERROR: kde-base/kdenetwork-3.5.9 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile
* environment, line 4052: Called kde_src_compile
* environment, line 2874: Called kde_src_compile 'src_compile'
* environment, line 2994: Called kde_src_compile 'src_compile' 'al
l' 'myconf'
* environment, line 2981: Called econf 'configure' 'make' '--with-
libidn' '--disable-sametime-plugin' '--disable-slp' '--without-wifi' '--disable-
jingle' '--without-xmms' '--without-external-libgadu' '--with-x' '--enable-mitsh
m' '--without-xinerama' '--with-qt-dir=/usr/qt/3' '--enable-mt' '--with-qt-libra
ries=/usr/qt/3/lib' '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--disable-debug' '--without
-debug' '--disable-final' '--without-arts' '--prefix=/usr/kde/3.5' '--mandir=/us
r/kde/3.5/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/kde/3.5/share/info'
* ebuild.sh, line 513: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* die "econf failed"
* The die message:
* econf failed
*
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if rele
vant.
* A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kdenetwork-3.5.
9/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kdenetwo
rk-3.5.9/temp/environment'.


Anyone who can tell me what this means receives my undying gratitude. If I can fix it...we'll negotiate monthly payments.

Thanks, Bob

[ali3nx]

Gentoo genrally rely's on a set of profiles to define a generic configuration that portage should utilize to build applications. I'm willing to guess that since you had to add the opengl use flag your installation is not set to the desktop profile which tends to leave out lots of important features beneficial to a linux desktop environment. if you want to install kde for example i suggest you check your system portage profile and set it to the 2008.0/desktop profile to ensure that emerge will build everything kde requires to a specification thats suitable for a desktop installation then proceed with emerge kde to install kde.

The profiles listed below may differ depending on your cpu type or gentoo architecture you chose to install.