When I do an emerge of batik with jikes is in my USE list, then when I run batik with either the blackdown or sun 1.4.1 jvm I get a verify error. java -jar /usr/share/batik/lib/batik-squiggle.jar java.lang.VerifyError: (class: org/apache/batik/bridge/BridgeContext, method: checkInteractiveElement signature: (Lorg/w3c/dom/Element;)Z) Register 2 contains wrong type at org.apache.batik.swing.svg.JSVGComponent.installSVGDocument(JSVGComponent.java:686) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install latest 1.4.1 java (either blackdown or sun) 2. install latest jikes (1.19) 3. make sure jikes is in your USE list 4. emerge batik 5. java -jar /usr/share/batik/lib/batik-squiggle.jar Actual Results: squiggle stops loading (with a partial progress bar) and a verify error is printed. Expected Results: the progress bar completes, the initial window disappears, and the ordinary batik interface appears. After I removed jikes from the USE list in make.conf emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r3 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com http://acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo ftp://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/ http://212.219.247.11/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X alsa apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Fixed in portage, thanks.