here's the tail end of the emerge log: make[4]: Entering directory `/mnt/hda8/var/tmp/portage/jmax-4.0.2/work/jmax-4.0.2/packages/dtd/c/src' /bin/sh ../../../../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../../include -I../../../../include -O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -Wno-unused -O3 -funroll-loops -fmove-all-movables -fstrict-aliasing -c dtd_thread.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../../include -I../../../../include -O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -Wno-unused -O3 -funroll-loops -fmove-all-movables -fstrict-aliasing -c dtd_thread.c -fPIC -DPIC -o dtd_thread.lo dtd_thread.c: In function `dtd_thread_set_state': dtd_thread.c:41: error: assignment of read-only member `buffer_index' dtd_thread.c:42: error: assignment of read-only member `is_eof' dtd_thread.c: In function `dtd_thread_read': dtd_thread.c:74: error: assignment of read-only location make[4]: *** [dtd_thread.lo] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hda8/var/tmp/portage/jmax-4.0.2/work/jmax-4.0.2/packages/dtd/c/src' make[3]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hda8/var/tmp/portage/jmax-4.0.2/work/jmax-4.0.2/packages/dtd/c' make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hda8/var/tmp/portage/jmax-4.0.2/work/jmax-4.0.2/packages/dtd' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hda8/var/tmp/portage/jmax-4.0.2/work/jmax-4.0.2/packages' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 !!! ERROR: media-sound/jmax-4.0.2 failed. !!! Function einstall, Line 388, Exitcode 2 !!! einstall failed Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -bv jmax 2. 3. Actual Results: no install Expected Results: installed jmax Gentoo Base System version 1.4.12 Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420-r0, 2.4.25-gentoo-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.25-gentoo-r2 i686 mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" 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="/mnt/hda8/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d alsa apm arts atlas avi berkdb cdf cdr crypt cups doc emacs encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif ginac gnome gpm gtk gtk2 guile hdf imagemagick imlib jack java jikes jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql nas ncurses netcdf nls odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline ruby sdl slang spell sqlite ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
it emerged fine for me... I'm not sure what could be going wrong here... can you contact the upstream developers?
You can close this out. It's working fine now. I recently rebuilt my machine with 2004.1. I had a fair number of Java options set before I rebuilt; right now, it's a "pure" Blackdown system.
closing
