If doc is enabled in you USE variable, emerge will fail compiling arping.html. I took out the doc USE variable, and it emerged fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.USE="doc" emerge net-misc/iputils 2. 3. Actual Results: END OF BUILD LOG: jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.79/html/../common/../common/dbl 1sr.dsl:2:66:W: cannot generate system identifier for public text "ISO 8879:1986 //ENTITIES Added Latin 2//EN" jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.79/html/../common/../common/dbl 1sr.dsl:3:5:E: reference to entity "lat2" for which no system identifier could b e generated jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.79/html/../common/../common/dbl 1sr.dsl:2:0: entity was defined here make[1]: *** [arping.html] Error 8 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/iputils-20071127/work/iput ils-s20071127/doc' make: *** [html] Error 2 * * ERROR: net-misc/iputils-20071127 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2335: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake -j1 html || die; * The die message: * (no error message) * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if rele vant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/iputils-2007112 7/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/iputils- 20071127/temp/environment'. * Expected Results: Completed emerge. emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2800+ Timestamp of tree: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:45:02 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.4 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r9 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en_US en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib aim alsa artworkextra asf audiofile berkdb bootsplash bzip2 cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups curl dbus directfb divx4linux doc dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread effects encode examples fam fame fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac font-server foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glut gmp gopher gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile iconv idn imagemagick imap imlib isdnlog jabber java joystick jpeg jpeg2k lcms ldap libwww logitech-mouse lua lzo mad matroska mbox midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mmxext mng modplug motif mozilla mp2 mp3 mp4 mpeg mpeg2 mudflap musepack ncurses nethack nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin objc offensive ofx ogg openal opengl openmp oss pam pcre perl pidgin plugin png pop postgres ppds pppd python qt3 quicktime quotes readline real reflection rtc rtsp samba scanner sdk sdl session skins slang sox speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff timidity truetype unicode usb vcd videos vidix vorbis wavpack win32codecs wma wmf wxwindows x264 x86 xml xorg xosd xprint xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="via82xx mpu401 emu10k1 emu10k1x" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa r128" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
docutils being broken is not iputils' fault
I had this problem also. It was fixed for me by the fix in bug 184551 comment #30
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 184551 ***
