I'm reemerging Amarok after adding the ipod flag and libgpod fails to install due to bug 537968.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537968 There's a patch for the bug, which I've copied, but it's not being applied: root@kushiel /etc/portage/patches/media-libs/libgpod # cat libgpod-swig- comment-fix.patch --- bindings/python/gpod.i.in.orig 2015-06-20 23:15:41.000000000 -0700 +++ bindings/python/gpod.i.in 2015-06-20 23:16:28.000000000 -0700 @@ -298,9 +298,9 @@ %include "gpod_doc.i" %include "@top_builddir@/config.h" -# be nicer to decode these utf8 strings into Unicode objects in the C -# layer. Here we are leaving it to the Python side, and just giving -# them utf8 encoded Strings. +// be nicer to decode these utf8 strings into Unicode objects in the C +// layer. Here we are leaving it to the Python side, and just giving +// them utf8 encoded Strings. typedef char gchar; %typemap(in) time_t { I'm using the instructions found here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349707#c11 However, it doesn't look like portage is even recognizing the patch: >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libgpod-0.8.3/work >>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/media- libs/libgpod-0.8.3/work/libgpod-0.8.3 ... >>> Source prepared. Any hints or suggestions on what I'm doing wrong? -- "People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault." - Sidney J. Harris