When LINGUAS is set to a non-trivial value, acroread-7.0.9-r1 fails to write the "acroread" wrapper script in src_unpack: /usr/portage/app-text/acroread/acroread-7.0.9-r1.ebuild: line 133: bin/acroread: No such file or directory /usr/portage/app-text/acroread/acroread-7.0.9-r1.ebuild: line 148: bin/acroread: No such file or directory /usr/portage/app-text/acroread/acroread-7.0.9-r1.ebuild: line 148: bin/acroread: No such file or directory /usr/portage/app-text/acroread/acroread-7.0.9-r1.ebuild: line 148: bin/acroread: No such file or directory /usr/portage/app-text/acroread/acroread-7.0.9-r1.ebuild: line 151: bin/acroread: No such file or directory chmod: cannot access `bin/acroread': No such file or directory >>> Source unpacked. The problem seems to be that the current working directory is ${WORKDIR} at that point, while "bin/acroread" lives in ${S}. (Furthermore: a few "die" instructions here and there would help finding such problems. ;-)
thank you, fixed