When dev-libs/xerces-c-2.8.0 compiled with USE="doc iconv icu libwww threads -debug -icu", glest fails shortly after startup with error: Exception: Error parsing XML, file: , line: 0: An exception occurred! Type:RuntimeException, Message: The primary document entity could not be opened. Id=/usr/share/games/glest/data/core/menu/menu.xml Solution: recompile dev-libs/xerces-c with +icu. It may also work to recompile -icu and -iconv and downgrading to <2.8 should work as well (since it worked before). Related: bug 202922. I don't think this is a dupe because bug 202922 is on xalan-c being broken, although you may want to mark this a dupe and rename bug 202922 to "dev-libs/xerces-c-2.8.0 breaks multiple packages". In this case, glest actually compiles, it just fails to run. Also, this may effect more archs than just x86_64. Portage 2.1.4_rc11 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.2.2, glibc-2.7-r1, 2.6.23-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ Timestamp of tree: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:16:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.3 dev-lang/python: 2.5.1-r4 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="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /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/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.espri.arizona.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" LINGUAS="en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j3" 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-*" 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portaudio posix postproc ppds pppd pulseaudio python qq qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime radio rar readline reflection rrdcgi rtc ruby samba sametime sasl sdl sdl-image sdl-sound seamonkey sensord serpentine session sharedext silc slp smp smtp sndfile soap sockets sound speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl startup-notification stream streamripper subversion suexec svg svgz symlink sysfs syslog sysvipc tagwriting tcl tcpd tetex tga theora threads tidy tiff timidity tk tokenizer transcode trayicon truetype truetype-fonts tse3 type1-fonts unicode urandom usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd vda vhosts videos vim-syntax vim-with-x visualization vorbis vorbis-psy wav wavpack webdav wifi wma wmf wxwindows x264 xanim xcb xcomposite xface xforms xine xinerama xml xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xorg xplanet xpm xprint xscreensaver xsl xv xvid xvmc yaepg yahoo yv12 zeroconf zip zlib" 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 dbd deflate dir disk_cache dumpio env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config log_forensic logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
BTW, menu.xml is in dos format, I wonder if that can be related.
I can confirm similar symtoms with dbxml, which requires xerces-c: It works on x86, but not on amd64 as long as iconv is enabled. I just got the feedback, that that is fixed in xerces-c 2.9 and comming 3.0, see http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESC-1586 Guido
xerces-c-3.0.0 ebuild didn't fix the compilation trouble. I tested with and without the iconv USE for xerces-c and got the same errors in glest compilation. I got same problems on ~x86 and ~amd64 platforms !
glest-2.0.1 is long gone.
