Bugzilla Bug 232373

On a fairly fresh ~x86 install with no tex on it yet,
sci-mathematics/ginac-1.4.3 with USE=doc fails. After emerging
dev-texlive/texlive-fontsrecommended-2007, ginac installs fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
This is what happens when texlive-fontsrecommended is not installed:
$ emerge -v ginac
<blah, blah, blah>
Generating graph info page...
Generating file index...
Generating example index...
Generating file member index...
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./reference.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/book.cls
Document Class: book 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/bk10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ltxmisc/a4wide.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ntgclass/a4.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/makeidx.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fancyhdr/fancyhdr.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdftex-def/pdftex.def)))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/multicol.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/float/float.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/textcomp.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ts1enc.def))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/alltt.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/times.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/hyperref.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/pd1enc.def)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/hyperref.cfg)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/kvoptions.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/puenc.def)
Implicit mode ON; LaTeX internals redefined
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/backref.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ltxmisc/url.sty))
*hyperref using driver hpdftex*
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/hpdftex.def)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/utf8.def
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1enc.dfu)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ot1enc.dfu)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/omsenc.dfu)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ts1enc.dfu))) (./doxygen.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/array.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def))
Writing index file reference.idx
No file reference.aux.
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ts1cmr.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/t1ptm.fd)kpathsea: Running mktextfm
ptmr8t
ACCESS DENIED  mkdir:     /var/cache/fonts/tfm
mkdir: cannot create directory `././var/cache/fonts/tfm': Permission denied
mktextfm: mktexdir /var/cache/fonts/tfm/adobe/times failed.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

! Font T1/ptm/m/n/10=ptmr8t at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found
.
<to be read again> 
                   relax 
l.33 \begin{document}

? 


At this point I pressed 'q<return>', and got some more "ACCESS DENIED" errors
for mkdir /var/cache/fonts/tfm.


Portage 2.2_rc1 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.1,
glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.26-gentoo i686)
=================================================================
System uname:
Linux-2.6.26-gentoo-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_M_processor_1.60GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:35:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r5
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.2.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r3
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.62-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.25-r4
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo
/etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y"
FEATURES="collision-protect distcc distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch
preserve-libs sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv
usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://kork ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/
http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/
ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ "
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles
--exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/enlightenment /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://kork/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib
cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo fam firefox fortran gd
gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kerberos latex libnotify
logrotate mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg
opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4
quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl
startup-notification svg tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode vim-syntax vorbis
win32codecs x86 xml xorg xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp
atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968
fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx
via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop
empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi
null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias
auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm
authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache
dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache
filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic
negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack
vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux"
LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses
text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev i810 vesa vga"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Fixed in cvs. Thanks for tracking that down.