Making all in User make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/libwww-5.4.0-r4/work/w3c-libwww-5.4.0/Library/User' (cd . && \ perl ../../config/makeindx.pl ../src/ ../src/WWW*.html \ > Extrnals.html) Can't open perl script "../../config/makeindx.pl": No such file or directory make[3]: *** [Extrnals.html] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/libwww-5.4.0-r4/work/w3c-libwww-5.4.0/Library/User' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/libwww-5.4.0-r4/work/w3c-libwww-5.4.0/Library' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/libwww-5.4.0-r4/work/w3c-libwww-5.4.0' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 !!! ERROR: net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r4 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 937: Called src_compile libwww-5.4.0-r4.ebuild, line 68: Called die !!! Compilation failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. gimli ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.15.6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15.6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:50:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: 0.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" 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/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/" LANG="en_US" LINGUAS="en de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://gollum.odi.ch/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi alsa amr apache2 asf audacious bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups dbus dga divx dlloader dri dvd dvdread elibc_glibc emboss encode exscalibar fam ffmpeg fftw firefox flac ftp gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal hfs hpn iconv ieee1394 input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics ipod ipv6 irda javascript jpeg kde kernel_linux libvisual linguas_de linguas_en logitech-mouse mad maildir mikmod mmx mozdevelop mozsvg mp3 mp4 mpeg mpeg2 mplayer msn multicall mysql ncurses network nls no-old-linux nodrm nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime rc5 rdesktop readline reflection reiserfs sasl scanner sdl session slp smartcard sms speex spf spl sse sse2 ssl subversion svg tcpd theora thunderbird tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev unicode urandom usb userland_GNU userlocales utempter v4l vcd video_cards_fbdev video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa visualization vorbis wifi win32codecs wmp xcomposite xine xinerama xml xorg xosd xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Although it failed repeatedly with revdep-rebuild it finally worked with emerge -1 libwww. weird.