It appears that the tarball for subversion-1.3.0_rc4 doesn't include the subversion book. I noticed this when src_install started failing with: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib /var/tmp/portage/subversion-1.3.0_rc4/image//usr/lib64/libsvnjavahl-1.a chmod 644 /var/tmp/portage/subversion-1.3.0_rc4/image//usr/lib64/libsvnjavahl-1.a libtool: install: warning: remember to run `libtool --finish /usr/lib64' installing html book !!! ERROR: dev-util/subversion-1.3.0_rc4 failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 252, Exitcode 1 !!! Installing book failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. araqiel ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre3 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-4.0.2, glibc-2.3.6-r1, 2.6.15-rc7-ck1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-rc7-ck1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre12 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -ggdb" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks multilib-strict sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/Gentoo/ http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bdirect" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/home/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/scratch /usr/local/overlays/libc" SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdb cdr crypt cups curl dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gif glitz glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal hardened idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack java jpeg lcms ldap libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mhash mmap mng mono motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pdflib perl php png postgres python quicktime readline samba sdl speex spell sqlite ssl svg tcltk tcpd theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vorbis xine xinerama xml2 xpm xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux linguas_de linguas_en userland_GNU video_cards_radeon video_cards_nv" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL
Thanks. The new portage finally allows the nonexistence of the book to lead to failure. I never noticed that the book wasn't there anymore. I've just changed the ebuild to not try to install the book.
