I was not able to build OpenOffice, recieveing java compile-time errors as seen, the same as in the forum entry I linked to. I then emerged the new version and blackdown and was able to compile OpenOffice successfully. So, it seems the ebuild should depend on Java 1.4. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.49-r13-2 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ccache version 2.2 [enabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /opt/tomcat/conf /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs sandbox ccache userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/mnt/new/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex aalib svga java guile X sdl gpm tcpd libwww ssl python imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde motif opengl artswrappersuid -gnome xvid mozsvg ggi ada alsa cdr dga directfb doc dvd flash gphoto2 imap jikes mozilla mysql oav pda perl pnp ruby samba scanner slp sse tcltk tiff wmf xml zlib ipv6 pam -esd faad matroska xosd"
I have just changed the ebuilds accordingly to depend on jdk-1.4.1 or greater. It is correct that they don't work with 1.3
