Hm, it seems that the maketest feature causes problems on many ends. I had a failure on tetex, look: >>> Test phase [enabled]: app-text/tetex-2.0.2-r5 >>> Test phase [check]: app-text/tetex-2.0.2-r5 cd texk; TEXMF=/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texmf TEXMFCNF=/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texmf/web2c make check make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texk' for d in web2c bibtex8 cjkutils detex devnag dtl dvi2tty dvidvi dviljk dvipdfm dvipsk gsftopk lacheck makeindexk musixflx odvipsk oxdvik ps2pkm seetexk tetex tex4htk texlive ttf2pk tth xdvik ./kpathsea; do if test -d $d; then \ (cd $d && make -w CC='gcc' CFLAGS='-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe ' LDFLAGS='' prefix=/usr exec_prefix=/usr bindir=/usr/bin scriptdir=/usr/bin libdir=/usr/lib datadir=/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2 infodir=/usr/share/info includedir=/usr/include mandir=/usr/share/man manext=1 man1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 texmf=/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texmf web2cdir=/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texmf/web2c vartexfonts=/var/tmp/texfonts texinputdir=/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texmf/tex mfinputdir=/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texmf/metafont mpinputdir=/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texmf/metapost fontdir=/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texmf/fonts fmtdir=/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texmf/web2c basedir=/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texmf/web2c memdir=/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texmf/web2c texpooldir=/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texmf/web2c mfpooldir=/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texmf/web2c mppooldir=/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texmf/web2c dvips_plain_macrodir=/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texmf/tex/plain/dvips dvilj_latex2e_macrodir=/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texmf/tex/latex/dvilj dvipsdir=/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texmf/dvips psheaderdir=/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texmf/dvips default_texsizes='300:600' check) || exit 1; else true; fi; done make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texk/web2c' test -f tests/exampl.aux || \ cp ./tests/exampl.aux tests/exampl.aux TEXMFCNF=../kpathsea/texmf.cnf BSTINPUTS=./tests ./bibtex tests/exampl This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.4.5) The top-level auxiliary file: tests/exampl.aux I couldn't open database file xampl.bib ---line 1 of file tests/exampl.aux : \bibdata{xampl : } I'm skipping whatever remains of this command The style file: apalike.bst I found no database files---while reading file tests/exampl.aux Warning--I didn't find a database entry for "whole-journal" Warning--I didn't find a database entry for "whole-set" Warning--I didn't find a database entry for "whole-collection" Warning--I didn't find a database entry for "whole-proceedings" Warning--I didn't find a database entry for "book-full" (There were 2 error messages) make[2]: *** [bibtex-check] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texk/web2c' make[1]: *** [check] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/portage/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0.2-r5/work/tetex-src-2.0.2/texk' make: *** [check] Error 2 !!! ERROR: app-text/tetex-2.0.2-r5 failed. !!! Function src_test, Line 566, Exitcode 0 !!! Make check failed. See above for details. !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Please tell me if I shall provide any more information or run some test, I'll do it.. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /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 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig candy ccache clean confcache distcc distlocks fixpackages maketest nostrip sandbox sfperms strict test userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/" LINGUAS="en-US de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/portage/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://borgcube/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl debug dvd dvdr emboss encode fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal libg++ libwww lirc lm_sensors mad matroska mikmod mmx motif mozilla-firefox mp3 mpeg ncurses network nls nocardbus nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png python qt readline samba sasl sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis wsconvert xine xinerama xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zeroconf zlib linguas_en-US linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 68878 ***
