Apparently groff assumes that Xfree's bins are in the path... which isn't correct. 'su -' should emulate this proper behavior. Any test -f grnexmpl.g || cp /var/tmp/portage/groff-1.18.1-r2/work/groff-1.18.1/doc/grnexmpl.g . make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/groff-1.18.1-r2/work/groff-1.18.1/doc' make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/groff-1.18.1-r2/work/groff-1.18.1' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/groff-1.18.1-r2/work/groff-1.18.1' make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/groff-1.18.1-r2/work/groff-1.18.1' /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 84: xmkmf: command not found !!! ERROR: sys-apps/groff-1.18.1-r2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 84, Exitcode 127 !!! (no error message) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Disregard this one... It's a bug due to a typo in the BSD additions. Only occurs in 48-r3/48-r2 of portage.