The use flag combination -pam +locking is not possible with that configure.ac. Having a pam conf and a /etc/pam.d could be remnants from a previous installation of pam and don't tell us for sure that the user does not want this. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/908509 # Pascal Jäger --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -4971,7 +4971,6 @@ elif test "$have_pam" = no -a "$enable_locking" = yes ; then if test -d /etc/pam.d -o -f /etc/pam.conf ; then warn "Your system seems to have PAM, but PAM is not being used." warn2 "That is probably not going to work out well." - CONF_STATUS=1 fi fi