Bugzilla Bug 241380

emerge -av texlive tries to upgrate texlive-2007 to texlive-2008 but
one of the new dependencies fails to built. In particular it is:

dev-tex/mh-20080903

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Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0,
2.6.25-gentoo-r1 i686)
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System uname:
Linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r1-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_M_processor_1.73GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:45:02 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1, 2.5.1-r3
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.2.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.62
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.24
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild
/etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms
strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/
ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ "
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
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"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="acl bash-completion bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups fortran gdbm gpm iconv
isdnlog midi mmx mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd
python readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd unicode x86 xorg
zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug
file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul 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 wacom" KERNEL="linux"
LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses
text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL,
LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS,
PORTDIR_OVERLAY



Reproducible: Always

Created an attachment (id=168038) [details]
The build.log

Created an attachment (id=168040) [details]
The build environment

Finally, I found the bug #237202 (Comments 4, 5) in the archive.
Following the instructions at:

  http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml#doc_chap4

I run:

  # rm -rf /var/lib/texmf/web2c
  # texmf-update

This fixed the problem in my case.
Note however that I was not upgrading from tetex but from texlive-2007.
In any case, I am not sure that this procedure should be left to the user.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 237202 ***