root@grizzly:/usr/lib64(37)# emerge -vuD --newuse world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: ... Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sci-libs/hdf5-1.6.6 [1.6.5-r1] USE="fortran ssl threads zlib -cxx -debug -mpi -szip (-f90%) (-hlapi%*) (-static%*)" 0 kB >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/sci-libs/hdf5-1.6.6/work/hdf5-1.6.6 ... configure: error: invalid package name: pic --enable-shared --disable-cxx --with-pthread --enable-threadsafe --enable-production * * ERROR: sci-libs/hdf5-1.6.6 failed. Reproducible: Always root@grizzly:/usr/lib64(38)# emerge --info Portage 2.1.4_rc7 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.2.2, glibc-2.7-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Timestamp of tree: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:01:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.3 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r7, 2.5.1-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 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: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ " LINGUAS="de fr" 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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/science /usr/local/portage /usr/local/sci" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi aiglx alsa amd64 amrr ao aotuv apache2 asf atlas auctex audacious audiofile automount bash-completion beagle berkdb bitmap-fonts blas bluetooth bonobo boo bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdf cdio cdparanoia cdr cgi chm cli corba cracklib crypt cups curl daap dbus device-mapper dga divx dlloader dmi dri dv dvb dvd dvdr dvi dxr3 dynagraph effects elf emacs emboss encode epiphany esd evo evolution examples exif expat extra fam fame ffmpeg fftw firefox fits flac fltk foomaticdb fortran fpx galago gdal gdbm geos gif gimp gimpprint ginac glade glitz gml gmp gnokii gnome gnuplot gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphics graphviz grass gs gsl gsm gstreamer gtk guile hal hardened hddtemp hdf hdf5 hlapi http iconv icq id3 imagemagick innodb ipv6 irda irmc isdnlog ithreads jabber java jbig john jp2 jpeg jpeg2k kexi ladspa lame lapack latex lcms ldap libgda libsamplerate lirc lm_sensors lua lzo lzw mad math matroska midi mmx mmxext mng mod mono motif mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mplayer mudflap musicbrainz mysql mysqli nautilus ncurses neXt netcdf network nfs nls nntp nptl nptlonly ntfs numarray numeric obex ocaml octave odbc ogdi ogg ole opengl openmp pae pam pcre pda pdf perl plotutils plugins png posix postgres pppd preview-latex proj projectx pstricks python qhull quicktime readline reflection reiserfs rhythmbox rle rrdcgi rrdtool samba science sdl session slang slp sndfile snmp sox speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl subtitles svg t1lib tcltk tcpd tex theora threads thunderbird tidy tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userlocales utempter v4l2 vorbis wmf xattr xemacs xext xine xml xmlreader xmlrpc xorg xpm xv xvid xvmc zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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" 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" DVB_CARDS="tda10046 saa7134" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de fr" LIRC_DEVICES="hauppauge_dvb" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Hi Juergen, Thanks for the note and I believe I just fixed this in portage cvs. Best, Markus