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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?

Thanks

Michael Sander
mes65@_PLEASE_NO_SPAM_cornell.edu

--------This is some of the stuff that came before the error
message---------
/bin/sh ../../../../libtool --silent --mode=link --tag=CXX g++
-Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wbad-function-cast -Wundef -Wall
-pedantic -W -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings
-ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion
-DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -O3 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays
-funroll-loops -pipe -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new
-DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DKDE_NO_COMPAT
-o libhtmlimport.la.closure libhtmlimport_la_closure.lo
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/qt/3/lib -L/usr/kde/3.1/lib -module
-avoid-version -no-undefined htmlimport.lo khtmlreader.lo kwdwriter.lo
ImportDialog.lo ImportDialogUI.lo -lkhtml
.../../../../lib/kofficeui/libkofficeui.la
.../../../../lib/kofficecore/libkofficecore.la
.../../../../lib/store/libkstore.la ../../../../lib/kotext/libkotext.la
libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libpcreposix.la'
make[5]: *** [libhtmlimport.la.closure] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/koffice-1.2.1-r1/work/koffice-1.2.1/filters/kword/html/import'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/koffice-1.2.1-r1/work/koffice-1.2.1/filters/kword/html'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/koffice-1.2.1-r1/work/koffice-1.2.1/filters/kword'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/koffice-1.2.1-r1/work/koffice-1.2.1/filters'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/koffice-1.2.1-r1/work/koffice-1.2.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: app-office/koffice-1.2.1-r1 failed.
!!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 137, Exitcode 2
!!! died running emake, kde_src_compile:make

In news:6d7004df.0312071520.17a55472@posting.google.c om,
Michael <mes65@cornell.edu> rambled:

> libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libpcreposix.la'

This could be the problem, try emerge pcre, then try koffice again.
--
Billy

"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
(Pinky) Whoof, oh, I'd have to say the odds of that are terribly slim
Brain. (Brain) True.
(Pinky) I mean, really, when have I ever been pondering what you've
been pondering? (Brain) To my knowledge, never.
(Pinky) Exactly. So, what are the chances that this time, I'm
pondering what you're pondering? (Brain) Next to nil.
(Pinky) Well, that's exactly what I'm thinking, too.
(Brain) Therefore, you *are* pondering what I'm pondering.
(Pinky) Poit, I guess I am!

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?
..
..
..
> 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.