emerge sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r6 failed to install(not to build!) when I'm using MAKEFLAGS="-j2" variable in my /etc/make.conf. Solution for me now is to comment out this line in /etc/make.conf. sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r5 ebuild is ok. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. # MAKEFLAGS="-j2" emerge =sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r6 Actual Results: [..............] >>> Test phase [not enabled]: sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r6 >>> Install flex-2.5.4a-r6 into /var/tmp/portage/flex-2.5.4a-r6/image/ category sys-devel /bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs \ /var/tmp/portage/flex-2.5.4a-r6/image//usr/bin /var/tmp/portage/flex-2.5.4a-r6/image//usr/lib /var/tmp/portage/flex-2.5.4a-r6/image//usr/include /var/tmp/portage/flex-2.5.4a-r6/image//usr/share/man/man1 rm -f /var/tmp/portage/flex-2.5.4a-r6/image//usr/share/man/man1/flexdoc.1 /bin/install -c -m 644 ./flex.1 /var/tmp/portage/flex-2.5.4a-r6/image//usr/share/man/man1/flex.1 /bin/install: cannot create regular file `/var/tmp/portage/flex-2.5.4a-r6/image//usr/share/man/man1/flex.1': No such file or directory make: *** [install.man] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... mkdir /var/tmp/portage/flex-2.5.4a-r6/image//usr mkdir /var/tmp/portage/flex-2.5.4a-r6/image//usr/bin mkdir /var/tmp/portage/flex-2.5.4a-r6/image//usr/lib mkdir /var/tmp/portage/flex-2.5.4a-r6/image//usr/include mkdir /var/tmp/portage/flex-2.5.4a-r6/image//usr/share mkdir /var/tmp/portage/flex-2.5.4a-r6/image//usr/share/man mkdir /var/tmp/portage/flex-2.5.4a-r6/image//usr/share/man/man1 !!! ERROR: sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r6 failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 49, Exitcode 2 !!! make install failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 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, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -ffast-math" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -ffast-math" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo" LANG="ru_RU.KOI8-R" LINGUAS="ru" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X acpi alsa audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dbus eds emboss encode exif expat fam firefox foomaticdb gdbm gif glut gnome gnutls gstreamer gtk2 hal icq idn imlib jabber jpeg lcms libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mng mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png postgres python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userlocales vorbis xml2 xv zlib linguas_ru userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS
MAKEFLAGS is the wrong variable, you want MAKEOPTS if you filed any other parallel bugs recently, you should mark those INVALID as well
