building ethereal goes well enough until the documentation attempts to build, when it fails with "unknown option: title" and "unknown option: noindex" as it attempts to pass --title= and --noindex options to /usr/bin/pod2html. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -u ethereal 2. 3. Actual Results: build fails at building documentation with pod2html. Expected Results: all docs built, ethereal build, installed. Gentoo Base System version 1.6.6 Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.22 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /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="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acl acpi aim alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib calendar cddb cdr chroot crypt cups curl dba dbase dga directfb divx4linux dnd doc dsl dvb dvd dvdr encode esd ethereal exif f77 fam fastcgi fbcon fla flac flatfile foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gphoto2 gpm gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile icq imagemagick imap imlib innodb ipv6 jabber java jpeg junit kerberos ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod motif mpeg msn mysql ncurses nls offensive oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pcmcia pda pdflib perl pg-hier pg-intdatetime plotutils png pnp postgres ppds prelude python qt quicktime readline ruby sasl scanner sdl session slang snmp spell sqlite sse ssl svg svga tclck tcltk tcpd tetex tidy tiff truetype trusted unicode usb vhosts wavelan wmf x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xprint xv xvid yahoo zeo zlib"
ethereal is version 0.10.7
0.10.7 has been removed - do you still get this problem in 0.10.8? If so what dev-lang/perl do you have?
As of 0.10.8 ethereal builds just fine.