After some change in use flags I re-emerge various ebuilds including ffmpeg. Result of emerge is as follow: bash-2.05b# emerge -v ffmpeg Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.8 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) ffmpeg-0.4.8.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking ffmpeg-0.4.8.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/ffmpeg-0.4.8/work * Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! Value for $EPATCH_SOURCE is: * * /usr/portage/media-video/ffmpeg/files/ffmpeg-0.4.8.diff * ( ffmpeg-0.4.8.diff ) -------------------------------------------------------------- Since I already have compiled this version of ffmpeg before it looks like the patch file file has been moved or removed from the portage tree without updating the ebuild. While I am on ppc it is not a problem specific to this arch, even if x86 has moved to ffmpeg-0.4.9_pre1 there is an non working ebuild in the tree. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge ffmpeg 2. 3. Actual Results: emerge failed due to missing patch emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/ppc/2004.3, gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 ppc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 ppc 7450, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 10 2005, 12:27:19)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.90.0.3-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.2-r7 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=7450 -pipe -maltivec -mabi=altivec -mpowerpc-gfxopt -fsigned-char -frename-registers -fweb-fno-strict-aliasing" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=7450 -pipe -maltivec -mabi=altivec -mpowerpc-gfxopt -fsigned-char -frename-registers -fweb -fno-strict-aliasing" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.vic.keypoint.com.au http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa altivec arts berkdb bitmap-fonts cdf cdparanoia cdr cups curl dvd dvdr emboss esd f77 fam fbcon flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm graphviz gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib imlib2 java jbig jpeg jpeg2k kde lcms libwww live mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses netcdf network nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppc ppds python qt readline samba sdl sheep slang ssl szip tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts wmf xml xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
fixed. thanks.