I apologize for the categorization, but I wasn't sure which one this should go in and this *is* about my laptop, so I suppose this is still appropriate.
I just recently installed gentoo on my Acer Aspire 5050-3785 using the "quick install" guide:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-...ickinstall.xml
During the install I apparently forgot to setup USE flags, so cairo was built without the X flag. It took me a while to realize the exact problem, but I eventually fixed it by setting up USE flags and re-emerging cairo. Now most things install perfectly, but when I try to install any GUI it tries to install x11-libs/gt+-2.12.5-r1, which returns the following error:
http://pastebin.org/21001
The main parts of the error message that (I think) are relevant:
#configure: error:
#*** Can't link to Pango. Pango is required to build
#*** GTK+. For more information see
http://www.pango.org
and
# * The die message:
# * econf failed
I don't know what "econf failed" means and extensive googling has shown very little, but a lot of people appear to have had this problem when trying to emerge GTK. I attempted to emerge pango per the first set of messages and got this error:
http://pastebin.org/21002
This error message is even less helpful (at least to a n00b like me):
* The die message:
* compile failure
Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you in advance!