See the url. There's the full install log. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge commons-beanutils with junit in use flags. Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-nitro4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-nitro4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1,sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/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 /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks maketest sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://aria/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo http://lame.lut.fi/linux/gentoo " MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/bmg-main" SYNC="rsync://aria/portage" USE="X acpi alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bootsplash bzlib cdb cdparanoia cdr crypt cups directfb divx4linux dv dvd dvdr dvdread edl encode f77 fam fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib java jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww lzo mad makecheck mikmod mmx mmx2 motif mozilla mpeg ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nvidia oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline rtc ruby samba sdl slang slp spell sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 x86 xine xineramaxml2 xmms xosd xv xvid xvmc zlib video_cards_nvidia"
FYI: I am using sun-jdk-1.5.0. I will test with blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01, when I have time.
i now decided to remove the junit test feature from that ebuild. it's an upstream problem and i asked upstream for an advice but no response till today. i also tried to fix it on my own but without success.