mes65@cornell.edu (Michael) writes:

> I just spent nearly 5 hours building KOffice and I get this error
> message:
>
> !!! ERROR: app-office/koffice-1.2.1-r1 failed.
> !!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 137, Exitcode 2
> !!! died running emake, kde_src_compile:make
>
> This is, to say the least, annoying. I don't even know where to begin
> to fix it. Can anyone help?
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> libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libpcreposix.la'

You must look for the very first error message because every error
message after that will most likely be misleading.

The real problem here is that the library file is missing. After
that, all the other messages will be redundant or irrelevant..

libprcreposix.la is installed by the package dev-libs/libpcre, so
you should 'emerge libpcre' to supply that library. Why that
package is missing from your system is entirely another question.
I dunno -- koffice should emerge it automatically if it isn't
already there.

'qpkg -q libpcre' shows no other packages dependending on libpcre
so perhaps this is an omission by the package maintainer.