I am running gentoo, and I recently got annoyed enough with abiword that I thought I would jump ship from gnome to kde to try kword.

So I emerged kword, and tried to run it. I get the following:

I tried recompiling kword, and compiling koffice-meta ebuild first (following the gentoo KDE howto), but nothing changed the failure. I tried to find out what .la files were, and ran into a dead-end in libtool land. Google was unhelpful - am I the only person experiencing this failure?

The funny thing is if I login as root, kword starts fine. However, doing all my word processing as root is not an acceptable solution (and hard to explain to my wife!).

Have you tried re-merging libtool?

Since you stated that you just switched from gnome to KDE, i assume you just performed an similar world update command:

emerge -avuD --newuse world


As Per the Gentoo documentation it is always a good practice to re-merge libtool after performing a global update.


So try this:
emerge libtool kword

see what happens. Post a Compile or further info from logs.


-weisso