This will be a very bad bugreport, but here it goes: Start with a fresh gentoo installation, run emerge lyx directly afterwards it failed on installing pango. It seems to complain about this: ebuild.sh line 39: called src_install enivironment line 2881: called gnome2_src_install environment line 2242: called die The specific snippet of code: emake DESTDIR="${D}" "scrollkeeper_localstate_dir=${D}${sk_tmp_dir} " "$@" install || die "install failed"; I did emerge lyx again and then it worked. So it is probably just a minor glitch. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install fresh gentoo system 2. emerge lyx 3.
You're right, without at very least the build log, I wouldn't consider this a bug report.
full build.log and emerge --info are the bare minimum for this kind of problem.