this causes the first and the last part of classpath being silently dropped and building packages then fails. it's the following line in java-utils-2.eclass: antflags="${antflags} -Dgentoo.classpath=\"${cp#:}\"" after being processed by ant script, it ends up as this: ... "-Dgentoo.classpath=\"...\"" and then the inner double quotes are used as part of the path(s).
commit 41c6bbf6ad278aa0a2b7b85c76c240a9135f9e21 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) Author: Miroslav Šulc <fordfrog@gentoo.org> Date: Mon Jan 21 22:27:37 2019 +0100 java-utils-2.eclass: fix for >=dev-java/ant-core-1.9.13 ant does not like double quotes around classpath (bug #676002) Signed-off-by: Miroslav Šulc <fordfrog@gentoo.org> diff --git a/eclass/java-utils-2.eclass b/eclass/java-utils-2.eclass index 473b177e539a..1ffd7a03399b 100644 --- a/eclass/java-utils-2.eclass +++ b/eclass/java-utils-2.eclass @@ -2029,7 +2029,9 @@ eant() { if [[ ${cp#:} ]]; then # It seems ant does not like single quotes around ${cp} - antflags="${antflags} -Dgentoo.classpath=\"${cp#:}\"" + # And ant 1.9.13+ also does not like double quotes around ${cp} + # https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58898 + antflags="${antflags} -Dgentoo.classpath=${cp#:}" fi [[ -n ${JAVA_PKG_DEBUG} ]] && echo ant ${antflags} "${@}"