both eigen-3.3 (https://bitbucket.org/eigen/eigen/) and ilmbase (http://www.openexr.com/downloads.html) define a type half. When building the calligra suite, krita fails with the following error: ... Scanning dependencies of target kritanormalize [ 79%] Building CXX object krita/plugins/filters/normalize/CMakeFiles/kritanormalize.dir/kritanormalize_automoc.cpp.o [ 79%] Building CXX object krita/plugins/filters/normalize/CMakeFiles/kritanormalize.dir/kis_normalize.cpp.o In file included from /builddir/calligra-2.9.11/libs/pigment/KoColorSpaceMaths.h:117:0, from /builddir/calligra-2.9.11/libs/pigment/KoColorSpaceTraits.h:26, from /builddir/calligra-2.9.11/krita/plugins/filters/unsharp/kis_unsharp_filter.cpp:38: /usr/include/OpenEXR/half.h:229:64: error: reference to 'half' is ambiguous HALF_EXPORT std::ostream & operator << (std::ostream &os, half h); ^ /usr/include/OpenEXR/half.h:91:7: note: candidates are: class half class half ^ In file included from /usr/include/eigen3/Eigen/Core:386:0, from /builddir/calligra-2.9.11/krita/image/kis_convolution_kernel.h:23, from /builddir/calligra-2.9.11/krita/plugins/filters/unsharp/kis_unsharp_filter.cpp:25: /usr/include/eigen3/Eigen/src/Core/arch/CUDA/Half.h:76:8: note: struct Eigen::half struct half : public half_impl::half_base { ^ In file included from /builddir/calligra-2.9.11/libs/pigment/KoColorSpaceMaths.h:117:0, from /builddir/calligra-2.9.11/libs/pigment/KoColorSpaceTraits.h:26, from /builddir/calligra-2.9.11/krita/plugins/filters/unsharp/kis_unsharp_filter.cpp:38: /usr/include/OpenEXR/half.h:229:64: error: 'half' has not been declared HALF_EXPORT std::ostream & operator << (std::ostream &os, half h); ^ /usr/include/OpenEXR/half.h:230:64: error: reference to 'half' is ambiguous HALF_EXPORT std::istream & operator >> (std::istream &is, half &h); ^ /usr/include/OpenEXR/half.h:91:7: note: candidates are: class half class half ^ In file included from /usr/include/eigen3/Eigen/Core:386:0, from /builddir/calligra-2.9.11/krita/image/kis_convolution_kernel.h:23, from /builddir/calligra-2.9.11/krita/plugins/filters/unsharp/kis_unsharp_filter.cpp:25: /usr/include/eigen3/Eigen/src/Core/arch/CUDA/Half.h:76:8: note: struct Eigen::half struct half : public half_impl::half_base { ^ ... With eigen-3.2 the build worked fine. Also see https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/issues/5174 for the downstream Void Linux bug.
Krita 2.9 is no longer being maintained, there will be no new 2.9.x releases. Build Krita 3.0.1.1 or the latest 3.1 beta instead. If you must build Krita 2.9, build it with the appropriate library versions.
Issue is the same for Krita 3.0.1.1, build fails with the same output as above when Eigen 3.3.1 is used, no such problems with Eigen 3.2.10.