After adding the x11-overlay fonts are installed at one computer under /usr/share/fonts/usr/share/fonts. E.g. I see: >>> Emerging (5 of 38) media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1 from x11 * font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * CPV: media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1 * REPO: x11 * USE: X amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux multilib nls userland_GNU >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1/work * Detected font directory: /usr/share/fonts/font-adobe-100dpi >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1/work >>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1/work/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1 ... >>> Source prepared. >>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1/work/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1 ... * econf: updating font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/usr/lib64 --prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/share --with-fontdir="/usr/share/fonts//usr/share/fonts/font-adobe-100dpi" ... /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 timR08-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz timR10-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz timR12-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz timR14-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz timR18-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz timR24-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz '/var/tmp/portage/media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1/image//usr/share/fonts//usr/share/fonts/font-adobe-100dpi' make install-data-hook make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1/work/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1' /usr/bin/mkfontdir /var/tmp/portage/media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1/image/"/usr/share/fonts//usr/share/fonts/font-adobe-100dpi" The reason seems to be the wrong value of FONT_OPTIONS in /var/tmp/portage/media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1/temp/environment root@condor:/root(29)# grep usr/share/fonts /var/tmp/portage/media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.1/temp/environment declare -- FONTDIR="/usr/share/fonts/font-adobe-100dpi" declare -- FONT_DIR="/usr/share/fonts/font-adobe-100dpi" declare -- FONT_OPTIONS="--with-fontdir=\"/usr/share/fonts//usr/share/fonts/font-adobe-100dpi\"" local real_dir=${EROOT}usr/share/fonts/${FONT_DIR}; mkfontdir -e "${EROOT}"/usr/share/fonts/encodings -e "${EROOT}"/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large -- "${EROOT}/usr/share/fonts/${FONT_DIR}"; mkfontscale -a "${EROOT}/usr/share/fonts/encodings/encodings.dir" -- "${EROOT}/usr/share/fonts/${FONT_DIR}"; find "${EROOT}"usr/share/fonts/ -type f '!' -perm 0644 -print0 | xargs -0 chmod -v 0644 2> /dev/null; find "${EROOT}"usr/share/fonts/ -type f '!' -perm 0644 -print0 | xargs -0 chmod -v 0644 2> /dev/null; mkfontdir -e ${EPREFIX}/usr/share/fonts/encodings -e ${EPREFIX}/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large "${ED}${FONTDIR}"; rm -rf "${ED}"/usr/share/fonts/${FONT_DIR}/fonts.{scale,dir,cache-1}; But why FONT_OPTIONS has this value? If I delete the x11 overlay the fonts are again installed directly under /usr/share/fonts. On some other computers I have no problem with the x11 overlay. Reproducible: Always
Where the issue occurs: root@condor:/root(32)# emerge --info Portage 2.1.7.16 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.32.1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.32.1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6600_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:30:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4, 3.1.1-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.1.0 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.0 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.0 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL dlj-1.1" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news noclean parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de fr" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages/" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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/zugaina /usr/local/portage/layman/dotnet /usr/local/portage/layman/science /usr/local/portage/layman/java-overlay /usr/local/portage/layman/perl-experimental /usr/local/portage/layman/suka /usr/local/portage/layman/lordvan /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi administrator afs alsa amd64 amrr ao aotuv apache2 asf aspell audacious audiofile automount bash-completion beagle berkdb bjam blas bluetooth boo boost branding bzip2 c++ cairo cdda cddb cdf cdio cdparanoia cdr cgi chm cli consolekit corba cracklib crypt cups curl cxx daap dbus device-mapper dga dia djvu doc dri ds2490 dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvi dxr3 eds elf emacs emboss encode epiphany esd evo examples exif expat extra extras fam fame ffmpeg fftw firefox fits flac fltk foomaticdb fortran fpx fts3 fuse galago garmin gd gdal gdbm geolocation geos gif gimp ginac git glade glib glitz gml gmp gnokii gnome gnome-keyring gnuplot gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphics graphtft graphviz gs gsl gsm gstreamer gtk guile hal harness hddtemp hdf hdf5 hlapi http httpd hvm iconv icq icu id3 ide imagemagick imap innodb ipod ipv6 irda ithreads jabber jadetex java java5 java6 jbig john jpeg jpeg2k kde kerberos kexi kpathsea kvm ladspa lame lapack latex lcms ldap libffi libgda libnotify libsamplerate lirc lm_sensors lua lzo mad mail maildir mailwrapper math matroska mikmod mmx mmxext mng modules mono motif mozdevelop mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mpi mplayer mtp mudflap multilib musicbrainz mysql mysqli nautilus ncurses neXt netcdf netpbm network networking networkmanager nfs nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs ntp numarray numeric nvidia obex objc ocaml octave odbc ogdi ogg ole openexr opengl openmp pae pam pcre pda pdf perl plotutils plugins png podcast policykit posix postgres postscript ppds pppd preview-latex proj projectx pstricks pulseaudio pymol python qhull qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection reiserfs rle romio rpc rrdcgi rrdtool samba sasl science sdl server session slang slp smbclient smp sndfile snmp soup sox speex spell spl sql sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification stlport subtitles subversion suexec svg swig sysfs szip t1lib tcl tcpd tex tex4ht texmacs theora threads thunar thunderbird tidy tiff tk tntc tools truetype udev unicode usb userlocales utempter v4l2 virtualbox vorbis wav webdav webdav-serf webkit wmf wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xemacs xext xine xml xmlreader xmlrpc xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd 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 env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" DVB_CARDS="cx8800 cx88xx tda1004x tda10045 tda10046 saa713" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev " KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de fr" NETBEANS_MODULES="ide websvccommon nb harness apisupport groovy gsf j2ee java xml" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 ppc ppc64 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="arm i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia nouveau vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Now I have the problem of the second computer.
Actually, I think the problem is with FONT_DIR, which isn't supposed to include '/usr/share/fonts'. I'll leave the question of how it got set that way to the devs who work on that overlay...
Thx for report. Fixed now.