Emerging auctex on my ~amd64 system fails with the error message: [...] kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 cmtt9 ACCESS DENIED mkdir: /var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/public mkdir: cannot create directory `././var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/public': Permission denied mktexpk: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexdir /var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm failed. [...] Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 282247 [details] app-emacs:auctex-11.86-r1:20110805-210549.log Log file produced by the command: # emerge -avt app-emacs/auctex
After (as a normal user) unpacking the sources of auctex on a temporary directory and running "/configure" and "make", emerge succeeded in installing the package.
Please post your `emerge --info' output too.
Created attachment 282257 [details] emerge.info.txt Output of emerge '--info'
Created attachment 282369 [details, diff] Patch for auctex-11.86-r1.ebuild I cannot reproduce this, but does changing the ebuild as in attached patch fix the problem for you?
(In reply to comment #5) > Created attachment 282369 [details, diff] [details, diff] > Patch for auctex-11.86-r1.ebuild > > I cannot reproduce this, but does changing the ebuild as in attached patch fix > the problem for you? No reply. + 14 Jan 2012; Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> auctex-11.86-r1.ebuild: + Assign VARTEXFONTS wrt bug 377921. Remove old blocker.