There are no spaces around all brackets: I could not find any docs that specified a space must separate brackets from everything else, but I seem to recall that it is required. All examples I found also had spaces before and after a bracket. eg. DEPEND="imlib? (media-libs/imlib2) truetype? (>=media-libs/freetype-2) sdl? (>=media-libs/libsdl-1.2.1) doc? (app-text/texi2html) encode? (media-sound/lame) oggvorbis? (media-libs/libvorbis media-libs/libogg) !alpha?( aac? (media-libs/faad2 media-libs/faac) ) dvd? (media-libs/a52dec) xvid? (media-libs/xvid) " Porthole's dependency code was crashing due to the missing spaces by not slpitting correctly. !alpha?( aac? (media-libs/faad2 media-libs/faac) ) was splitting out "!alpha?(" rather than "!alpha" and then getting an index out of range error because the following chuncks were out of whack. Fixing the ebuild with spaces fixed it. Unless the lack of spaces is still correct syntax I will add code to report the ebuild as a syntax bug when that type of error is discovered. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Brian, it would help us incredibly if we knew which package you're even talking about here.
Oops! I missed that, sorry :( It is ffmpeg
Fixed in cvs. Thanks for reporting and using Gentoo!
