When attempting to emerge xmltex-1.9-r1, I get the error : /usr/portage/dev-tex/xmltex/xmltex-1.9-r1.ebuild: line 33: pdftex: command not found This can be worked-around by adding a link to pdflatex called pdftex I'm using the latest stable tetex, 3.0_p1-r3 This should be fixed by simply updating the references in the ebuild from pdftex to pdflatex Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attempt to emerge xmltex-1.9-r1 2. 3. emerge --info Portage 2.1.2-r9 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.18-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] 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: 2.4-r6 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 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: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk ftp://mirrors.blueyonder.co.uk/mirrors/gentoo http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ " LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8" 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/portage/local/myebuilds /usr/portage/local/unofficial /usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio /usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio/trunk/overlays/proaudio /usr/portage/local/layman/nouveau" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="a52 aac acpi alsa bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dri dts dvd dvi ffmpeg flac fortran gdbm gif gnutls gstreamer gtk2 hal iconv imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack jpeg lcd libg++ libsamplerate mad matroska midi mikmod mmx mp3 ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline real reflection sasl sdl session shorten sndfile socks4 socks5 speex spl sqlite ssl svg t1lib tcpd theora truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vim vorbis win32codecs x264 x86 xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
should be fixed in -r2