"emerge xalan" results in the following output : >>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-java/xalan-2.4.1-r2 to / [...] Buildfile: build.xml prepare: [echo] Project:Xalan-Java version:2_4_1 build.xml $Revision: 1.180 $ [mkdir] Created dir: /var/tmp/portage/xalan-2.4.1-r2/work/xalan-j_2_4_1/build [mkdir] Created dir: /var/tmp/portage/xalan-2.4.1-r2/work/xalan-j_2_4_1/build/classes compile: [echo] compile entire source tree and copy .properties and .res files to build tree. [javac] Compiling 437 source files to /var/tmp/portage/xalan-2.4.1-r2/work/xalan-j_2_4_1/build/classes [javac] /var/tmp/portage/xalan-2.4.1-r2/work/xalan-j_2_4_1/src/org/apache/xml/dtm/ref/DTMManagerDefault.java:394: cannot resolve symbol [javac] symbol : class IncrementalSAXSource_Xerces [javac] location: package ref [javac] coParser=org.apache.xml.dtm.ref.IncrementalSAXSource_Xerces.createIncrementalSAXSource(); [javac] ^ [javac] Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API. [javac] Note: Recompile with -deprecation for details. [javac] 1 error BUILD FAILED file:/var/tmp/portage/xalan-2.4.1-r2/work/xalan-j_2_4_1/build.xml:243: Compile failed; see the compiler error output for details.
Created attachment 16979 [details, diff] xalan ebuild patch This is a patch that will cause the xalan-2.4.1-r2.ebuild to work. This makes it consistent with the Apache docs: http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/readme.html#jar
Can you try with xalan 2.5 ??
Fixed in CVS
