notice how *nothing* is installed yet the emerge does not die ... root@rux0r root # emerge cmd5checkpw Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) net-mail/cmd5checkpw-0.22 to / >>> md5 ;-) cmd5checkpw-0.22.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking cmd5checkpw-0.22.tar.gz >>> Source unpacked. gcc -march=i686 -O3 -pipe -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -c -o main.o main.c main.c: In function `main': main.c:60: warning: return type of `main' is not `int' gcc -march=i686 -O3 -pipe -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -c -o md5c.o md5c.c gcc -march=i686 -O3 -pipe -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -c -o hmac_md5.o hmac_md5.c gcc -g -o cmd5checkpw main.o md5c.o hmac_md5.o >>> Install cmd5checkpw-0.22 into /var/tmp/portage/cmd5checkpw-0.22/image/ category net-mail cp cmd5checkpw /var/tmp/portage/cmd5checkpw-0.22/image//bin/ ; cp cmd5checkpw.8 /var/tmp/portage/cmd5checkpw-0.22/image//usr/s hare/man/man8/ cp: cannot create regular file `/var/tmp/portage/cmd5checkpw-0.22/image//bin/cmd5checkpw': No such file or directory cp: cannot create regular file `/var/tmp/portage/cmd5checkpw-0.22/image//usr/share/man/man8/cmd5checkpw.8': No such file or di rectory make: *** [install] Error 1 chown: failed to get attributes of `/var/tmp/portage/cmd5checkpw-0.22/image//etc/poppasswd': No such file or directory chmod: failed to get attributes of `/var/tmp/portage/cmd5checkpw-0.22/image//etc/poppasswd': No such file or directory chown: failed to get attributes of `/var/tmp/portage/cmd5checkpw-0.22/image//bin/cmd5checkpw': No such file or directory chmod: failed to get attributes of `/var/tmp/portage/cmd5checkpw-0.22/image//etc/cmd5checkpw': No such file or directory man: strip: >>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/cmd5checkpw-0.22/image/ >>> Merging net-mail/cmd5checkpw-0.22 to / >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... >>> net-mail/cmd5checkpw-0.22 merged.
I have fixed the install and added the poppasswd file