Compilation of subversion 1.0.6-r1 fails. Tried 1.0.6 (no -r1) late last night and it didn't compile either. Here's some output near where it fails: make: *** [revision-install] Error 1 !!! ERROR: dev-util/subversion-1.0.6 failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 174, Exitcode 2 !!! Installation of subversion failed emerge --info Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/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="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acpi alsa apache2 avi berkdb bonobo bzlib cdr crypt curl divx4linux dvd encode faac faad ffmpeg flac freetype gd gdbm glade gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 idea imagemagick imap ipv6 jpeg libg++ libwww live mad maildir mbox md5sum mikmod mmx mozsvg mpeg mpeg4 ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl operanom2 pam png postgres quicktime readline ruby sdl slang spell sse ssl tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode v4l2 vanilla x86 xml2 xmms xv xvid yv12 zlib"
Solved it. LANG="C" emerge -u subversion works It didn't like my en_GB.UTF-8 locale.