When emerging the lilypond-2.5.2, everything seems to compile correctly for me (or at the very least, it doesn't stop the emerge), and it also seems to run just fine. One caveat: I had to add source /etc/profile.d/lilypond-profile.sh to my .bashrc to get it to work. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.4.26-gentoo-r13 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26-gentoo-r13 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Python: dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5,dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 7 2005, 18:06:27)] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.19-r1, 2.4.21-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/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/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /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="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups encode esd f77 fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib ipv6 jack java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl plotutils png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
with 2.8 in portage, I think we'll wait for it to go stable instead of marking any of 2.[245]* stable... There's just no point to dealing with the bug reports for earlier versions.