I've had problems emerging libxslt. Wow, a lot of things depend on that! What's wrong? I tried putting "-xml" in my make.defaults file (because I already have xml2), but that seemed to make no difference. I have no idea what is happening here. Maybe it's a bug. sandbox tmp file: unlink: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2.pyc open_wr: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2.pyc error before halting configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used. [31;01mACCESS DENIED[0m unlink: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2.pyc [31;01mACCESS DENIED[0m open_wr: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2.pyc I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/bugs.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/docs.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/downloads.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/help.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/index.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/intro.html" make[2]: [EXSLT/bugs.html] Error 1 (ignored) I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/bugs.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/docs.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/downloads.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/help.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/index.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/intro.html" make[2]: [EXSLT/docs.html] Error 1 (ignored) I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/bugs.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/docs.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/downloads.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/help.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/index.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/intro.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/bugs.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/docs.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/downloads.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/help.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/index.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/intro.html" make[2]: [EXSLT/downloads.html] Error 1 (ignored) make[2]: [EXSLT/help.html] Error 1 (ignored) I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/bugs.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/docs.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/downloads.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/help.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/index.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/intro.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/bugs.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/docs.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/downloads.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/help.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/index.html" I/O error : failed to load external entity "EXSLT/intro.html" make[2]: [EXSLT/index.html] Error 1 (ignored) make[2]: [EXSLT/intro.html] Error 1 (ignored) /usr/lib/python2.3/xmllib.py:10: DeprecationWarning: The xmllib module is obsolete. Use xml.sax instead. DeprecationWarning) Portage 2.0.49-r4 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22-gentoo-r5) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm arts avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gpm gtk2 jpeg kde gnome libg++ mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis pdflib png qt quicktime sdl slang spell svga truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb readline java X tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib gtk opengl mysql postgres apache2 doc odbc xml innodb samba zeo usb -alsa"
edit the ebuild and add 'inherit python' at the top, then see if it fails.
I was getting the same error while trying to merge KDE, and editing the ebuild it was using, libxslt-1.1.2.ebuild, fixed the problem. Portage 2.0.49-r4 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.25) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.25 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2200+ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm arts avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gtk2 imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis pdflib png quicktime sdl spell svga truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python opengl X -gtk -gnome qt kde dvd cdr"
inherit python added to 1.1.2 and 1.1.3
