I installed dev-texlive/texlive-texinfo, patched the egrep expression, though, texi2dvi still failed. I then installed the latex package and it succeeded. Please fix the dependency, thanks! The testcase for the error that occurs building the bada toolchain outside of portage. :) ___ ana temp-binutils-build # etex txiversion.tex </dev/null >txiversion.out 2>txiversion.err ana temp-binutils-build # echo $? 1 ana temp-binutils-build # cat txiversion.err kpathsea: Running mktextfm lcircle10 mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input lcircle10 This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (TeX Live 2010) kpathsea: Running mktexmf lcircle10 ! I can't find file `lcircle10'. <*> ...jfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input lcircle10 Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...jfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input lcircle10 Transcript written on mfput.log. grep: lcircle10.log: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input lcircle10' failed to make lcircle10.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
fixed, thanks you should install virtual/texi2dvi for texi2dvi though.