After 'many' lines going OK in 'Installing' step, finally it stops with error. Last lines are: /var/tmp/portage/subversion-1.0.0/work/subversion-1.0.0/ac-helpers/install-sh -c .libs/libsvn_swig_py-1.lai /var/tmp/portage/subversion-1.0.0/image//usr/lib/libsvn_swig_py-1.la /var/tmp/portage/subversion-1.0.0/work/subversion-1.0.0/ac-helpers/install-sh -c .libs/libsvn_swig_py-1.a /var/tmp/portage/subversion-1.0.0/image//usr/lib/libsvn_swig_py-1.a ranlib /var/tmp/portage/subversion-1.0.0/image//usr/lib/libsvn_swig_py-1.a chmod 644 /var/tmp/portage/subversion-1.0.0/image//usr/lib/libsvn_swig_py-1.a libtool: install: warning: remember to run `libtool --finish /usr/lib' subversion/svnversion/svnversion . /repos/svn/trunk > /var/tmp/portage/subversion-1.0.0/image//usr/include/subversion-1/svn-revision.txt make: *** [revision-install] Error 139 !!! ERROR: dev-util/subversion-1.0.0 failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 146, Exitcode 2 !!! Installation of subversion failed The 'svn-revision.txt' file is empty after this, if it helps. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge subversion Don't know if this really helps: # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4, 2.4.19-neotek-r3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.19-neotek-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.2.9 ccache version 2.2 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.57a-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.8 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/resin/conf /opt/tomcat/conf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/afs/C /etc/afs/afsws /etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache sandbox userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo http://212.219.247.12/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages-x" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X X509 Xaw3d aalib accessibility acl acpi activefilter adns afs alsa amd apache2 apm arts atlas auctex avi berkdb bluetooth bonobo caps cdr chroot clisp cmucl crypt cscope cups curl dga directfb dnd doc dv dvb dvd dvdr emacs emacs-w3 encode esd evo expat faad fastcgi fbcon fftw flac flash flexresp foomaticdb foreign-package foreign-sysvinit freetds fusion gatos gb gcl gd gdbm ggi gif ginac glut gnome gnomedb gphoto2 gpm gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hbci hdf hdf5 idea imagemagick imap imlib informix innodb ipcs ipv6 irda irmc jack jack-caps jack-tmpfs java javascript jbig joystick jpeg junit kde kerberos ladcca lcms ldap ldirectord leim libdsk libg++ libgda libwww lirc mad maildir mbox mcal md5sum mdb memlimit mikmod mmx motif mozaccess mozcalendar mozilla mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg mpi mule mysql nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-ssh nas ncurses net netcdf nls nocd nptl nvidia oav oci8 odbc ofx oggvorbis opengl opie oss pam parse-clocks pda pdflib pear-db perl pg-hier physfs pic plotutils png pnp postgres ppds prelude pwdb python qhull qt quicktime radeon rage128 readline rplay ruby samba sasl savedconfig scanner sdk sdl serial skey slang slp snmp socks5 speex spell sqlite sse ssl stroke svga t1lib tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff transcode truetype trusted uclibc unicode usb vhosts virus-scan wmf wolk-bootsplash wolk-supermount wxwindows x86 xface xfs xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xv zeo zlib"
Is this still a problem for you? I don't have the problem with the current subversion versions.