xfe-1.46.2 ebuild missing fox dependency [RESOLVED]

[Progman3K]

Hi,

Has fox been removed from portage?

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emerge -vDa xfe

[ebuild  N    ~] x11-misc/xfe-1.46.2::gentoo  USE="nls startup-notification -debug" 0 KiB

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) x11-misc/xfe-1.46.2::gentoo
 * xfe-1.46.2.tar.xz BLAKE2B SHA512 size ;-) ...                                                                                                                                                                                     [ ok ]
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking 'xfe-1.46.2.tar.xz' to /var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/xfe-1.46.2/work
>>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/xfe-1.46.2/work
>>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/xfe-1.46.2/work/xfe-1.46.2 ...
>>> Source prepared.
>>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/xfe-1.46.2/work/xfe-1.46.2 ...
 * econf: updating xfe-1.46.2/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub
 * econf: updating xfe-1.46.2/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess
./configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --datarootdir=/usr/share --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-silent-rules --docdir=/usr/share/doc/xfe-1.46.2 --htmldir=/usr/share/doc/xfe-1.46.2/html --libdir=/usr/lib64 --disable-debug --enable-nls --enable-sn --enable-minimalflags
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/lib/portage/python3.13/ebuild-helpers/xattr/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
[...]
checking for fxfindfox in -lFOX-1.6... no
configure: error: "libFOX-1.6 not found"

yet, eix -S fox returns

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[I] x11-libs/fox-wrapper
     Available versions:  3-r1{tbz2}
     Installed versions:  3-r1{tbz2}(08:47:57 AM 08/27/2023)
     Homepage:            https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/No_homepage
     Description:         Wrapper for fox-config to manage multiple versions

but I don't see any other packages that relate to fox

Thank you for your time

[flexibeast]

The `-S` option asks eix to only test against the description field. The description field for x11-libs/fox says "C++ Toolkit for developing Graphical User Interfaces easily and effectively", which doesn't contain the word "fox". On my system, if i run `eix fox`, it returns (amongst other things):

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[N] x11-libs/fox (1.7.85(1.7))

[grknight]

Please post the config.log on a paste site to know what's really going on

[Progman3K]

I can get xfe to install by manually installing fox.

However,

if i use the version of fox that portage recommends

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# emerge -vDa x11-libs/fox
[ebuild   R    ] x11-libs/fox-1.7.85:1.7::gentoo  USE="bzip2 jpeg opengl tiff truetype zlib -debug -doc -profile -tools" 0 KiB

then xfe refuses to build because it appears to want fox v 1.6 exclusively.

but if i install the 1.6 version of fox

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# emerge -vDa =x11-libs/fox-1.6.57-r4
[ebuild     U ~] x11-libs/fox-1.6.57-r4:1.6::gentoo [1.6.49:1.6::gentoo] USE="bzip2 jpeg opengl png tiff truetype zlib -debug -doc -profile" 4,184 KiB

then xfe installs

Please post the config.log on a paste site to know what's really going on

I don't know what that is, I can't find any file named config.log

[Hu]

When an autoconf-based build runs, it produces a config.log in the working tree. If the build fails, that log should be available for you to post to a pastebin.

Based on your more recent post, it sounds like xfe needs to DEPEND on x11-libs/fox:1.6, at least until xfe is updated to work with x11-libs/fox:1.7. As I read the contents of gentoo.git, this DEPEND is already there. Therefore, I do not see how you got into the original failure mode. Please emerge --ask --depclean x11-libs/fox x11-misc/xfe to remove both, then emerge --ask --verbose x11-misc/xfe. Portage should ask to reinstall x11-libs/fox:1.6 on its own as a prerequisite. Allow that. Does xfe then succeed? If not, post the config.log from the failure.

[Progman3K]

Hu,

Yes, the sequence you recommended resulted in uninstalling and then reinstalling xfe, both operations working perfectly...

I guess I will marked this resolved.

Thank you, Hu, grknight, and flexibeast, for your help!