Try to merge subversion-1.3.0 with USE="nowebdav" and neon not previosly merged it will fail during config checking for neon. However USE="-nowebdav" emerge subversion pulls in neon and becouse of that it proceeds.
Reopen with some error messages and emerge --info.
So you don't trust me in this? Portage 2.1_pre5-r4 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2-r1 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-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="" ARCH="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" BASH_ENV="/etc/spork/is/not/valid/profile.env" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CLASSPATH="." 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Calculating dependencies ... done! >>> Emerging (1 of 1) dev-util/subversion-1.3.0 to / [snip] checking whether libtool needs -no-undefined... no configure: checking neon library An appropriate version of neon could not be found, so libsvn_ra_dav will not be built. If you want to build libsvn_ra_dav, please either install neon 0.25.5 on this system or get neon 0.25.5 from: http://www.webdav.org/neon/neon-0.25.5.tar.gz unpack the archive using tar/gunzip and rename the resulting directory from ./neon-0.25.5/ to ./neon/ configure: error: no suitable neon found See `config.log' for more details. !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /var/tmp/portage/subversion-1.3.0/work/subversion-1.3.0/config.log !!! ERROR: dev-util/subversion-1.3.0 failed. ######## ~ # USE="-nowebdav" emerge subversion -av These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild N ] net-misc/neon-0.25.5 USE="ssl zlib -expat" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-util/subversion-1.3.0 USE="bash-completion minimal nls zlib -apache2 -berkdb -emacs -java -nowebdav -perl -python -ruby" 0 kB And after pulling in neon it compiles without problem.
It's an error on my side. In attempt to make the configure fail when neon was requested but not found, I made it fail when neon wasn't there at all. I've fixed up the patch in cvs. Please try again.
yeah, syncing up fixed this bug for me
Closing.