Build log should always be verbose as per talk on dev-ML, please force it until some EAPI includes a fix for this. Other versions might be affected as well.
Created attachment 320334 [details] xine-lib-1.2.1-r1:20120531-135436.log
obsolete by http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=1cc39de72ac5311db748341ef9183586556719d9