I can not compile stable dev-python/lxml-2.2.2 with latest stable dev-python/setuptools-0.6.4. The compilation resulting in the following error: >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/lxml-2.2.2/work/lxml-2.2.2 ... * Building of dev-python/lxml-2.2.2 with Python 2.6... python2.6 setup.py build -b build-2.6 Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 14, in <module> pkg_resources.require("setuptools>=0.6c5") File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 621, in require needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements)) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 519, in resolve raise DistributionNotFound(req) # XXX put more info here pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: setuptools>=0.6c5 When I unmask dev-python/setuptools-0.6.6, everything works without any problems.
Stabilization of dev-python/setuptools-0.6.6 has been already requested in bug #291915.