Created attachment 380996 [details] emerge --info '=www-client/epiphany-3.12.1::gentoo' This is related to the following bugs: 513280 517386 After the fix for 517386 I see the symptom reported in 531280 when attempting to build ephiphany; the configure step now succeeds but it warns that YELP_HELP_INIT is command-not-found and produces a Makefile in help/ which has an unsubstituted YELP automake macro on line 513. Of course the build then fails. I suspect gnome-common should have a dependency on yelp-tools, but maybe it is epiphany itself.
Created attachment 380998 [details] Complete build log
Created attachment 381000 [details] emerge -pqv '=www-client/epiphany-3.12.1::gentoo'
Created attachment 381002 [details] ebuild environment
Fixed by emerge --quiet-build yelp-tools, which (for me) installed virtual/awk-1 (neat, didn't know that existed) and gnome-extra/yelp-xsl as well as app-text/yelp-tools. After that I can successfully emerge epiphany, and it displays www.gentoo.org
I can confirm the issue (make failing with strange errors) and the solution (merging yelp-tools).
+ 28 Oct 2014; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> -epiphany-3.10.3.ebuild, + -epiphany-3.12.0.ebuild, -files/epiphany-3.3.90-paxctl-introspection.patch, + -files/epiphany-3.6.1-test-gwarning.patch, + -files/epiphany-3.7.5-test-gwarning.patch, -files/gir-paxctl-lt-wrapper, + -files/paxctl.sh, epiphany-3.12.1.ebuild: + Add missing DEPEND on yelp-tools (#517462 by John Bowler), drop old +