I tried to emerge jakarta commons-httpclient (commons-httpclient-2.0.ebuild) but it failed to build because of a missing jar files ie. commons-logging [javac] import org.apache.commons.logging.Log; [javac] ^ [javac] /var/tmp/portage/commons-httpclient-2.0/work/commons-httpclient-2.0/src/java/org/apache/commons/httpclient/util/EncodingUtil.java:70: package org.apache.commons.logging does not exist I tried to manually install commons-logging but I still got the same error. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge rsync 2.emerge commons-httpclient 3. Actual Results: !!! ERROR: dev-java/commons-httpclient-2.0 failed. !!! Function jakarta-commons_src_compile, Line 77, Exitcode 1 !!! Compilation Failed Expected Results: a clean install of course 8-) Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.3-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.3-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -frename-registers -fprefetch-loop-arrays -falign-functions=64" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -frename-registers -fprefetch-loop-arrays -falign-functions=64" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" 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="X acpi alsa apache2 avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dga dvd encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline samba sdl spell sse ssl svga tcpd truetype usb x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Fixed in portage. The old jakarta-commons eclass is causing havoc, but that's ok.