On a fairly fresh ~x86 install with no tex on it yet, sci-mathematics/ginac-1.4.3 with USE=doc fails. After emerging dev-texlive/texlive-fontsrecommended-2007, ginac installs fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Actual Results: This is what happens when texlive-fontsrecommended is not installed: $ emerge -v ginac <blah, blah, blah> Generating graph info page... Generating file index... Generating example index... Generating file member index... This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) %&-line parsing enabled. entering extended mode (./reference.tex LaTeX2e <2005/12/01> Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh yphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/book.cls Document Class: book 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/bk10.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ltxmisc/a4wide.sty (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ntgclass/a4.sty)) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/makeidx.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fancyhdr/fancyhdr.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdftex-def/pdftex.def))) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/multicol.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/float/float.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/textcomp.sty (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ts1enc.def)) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/alltt.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/times.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/hyperref.sty (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/pd1enc.def) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/hyperref.cfg) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/kvoptions.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/puenc.def) Implicit mode ON; LaTeX internals redefined (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/backref.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ltxmisc/url.sty)) *hyperref using driver hpdftex* (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hyperref/hpdftex.def) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/utf8.def (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1enc.dfu) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ot1enc.dfu) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/omsenc.dfu) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ts1enc.dfu))) (./doxygen.sty (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/array.sty)) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) Writing index file reference.idx No file reference.aux. (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ts1cmr.fd) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/t1ptm.fd)kpathsea: Running mktextfm ptmr8t ACCESS DENIED mkdir: /var/cache/fonts/tfm mkdir: cannot create directory `././var/cache/fonts/tfm': Permission denied mktextfm: mktexdir /var/cache/fonts/tfm/adobe/times failed. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ! Font T1/ptm/m/n/10=ptmr8t at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found . <to be read again> relax l.33 \begin{document} ? At this point I pressed 'q<return>', and got some more "ACCESS DENIED" errors for mkdir /var/cache/fonts/tfm. Portage 2.2_rc1 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.26-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.26-gentoo-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_M_processor_1.60GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:35:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r5 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.2.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.62-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.25-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y" FEATURES="collision-protect distcc distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://kork ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/enlightenment /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://kork/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo fam firefox fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kerberos latex libnotify logrotate mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode vim-syntax vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xorg xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev i810 vesa vga" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Fixed in cvs. Thanks for tracking that down.
