As per summary, I tried versions 2.1.{1,2} and 2.2.0, all the same. Works fine with USE='-doc' Here's the final bit of the build.log -I. -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/local/include -c ruby_xml_schema.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -shared -o libxml_ruby.so ruby_xml_parser.o ruby_xml_xpath_expression.o ruby_xml_parser_options.o ruby_xml_attr.o ruby_xml_sax_parser.o ruby_xml_input_cbg.o ruby_xml_error.o ruby_xml_xinclude.o ruby_xml_html_parser_context.o ruby_xml.o ruby_xml_namespace.o ruby_xml_sax2_handler.o ruby_xml_encoding.o ruby_xml_cbg.o ruby_xml_dtd.o ruby_xml_node.o ruby_xml_attr_decl.o ruby_xml_io.o ruby_xml_xpath_object.o ruby_xml_attributes.o ruby_xml_html_parser_options.o ruby_xml_xpath_context.o ruby_xml_reader.o ruby_xml_namespaces.o ruby_xml_document.o ruby_xml_html_parser.o ruby_xml_relaxng.o ruby_xml_xpointer.o libxml.o ruby_xml_parser_context.o ruby_xml_xpath.o ruby_xml_schema.o -L. -L/usr/lib -Wl,-R/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -Wl,-R/usr/lib -L. -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic -Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,-R -Wl,/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -lrubyee18 -lxml2 -lc -lz -lm -lnsl -lpthread -lrt -ldl -lcrypt -lm -lc make: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/libxml-2.2.0/work/ree18/libxml-2.2.0/ext/libxml' * Running compile phase for all ... (in /var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/libxml-2.2.0/work/all/libxml-2.2.0) rake aborted! no such file to load -- rdoc/task /var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/libxml-2.2.0/work/all/libxml-2.2.0/Rakefile:6 (See full trace by running task with --trace) Reproducible: Always # emerge --info Portage 2.1.10.11 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 3.0.0-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.0.0-gentoo-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_L7500_@_1.60GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 08:45:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r9 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 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This isn't related to ree18. It's a missing dependency, we need the gem version of rdoc to provide the required task. Fixed in CVS.
