While emerging xorg-x11-6.8.2, i've seen this message: ln: creating symbolic link `/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2/image//usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc' to `../../../share/doc/xorg-x11-6.8.2': No such file or directory I think it comes from backward_compat_install(), at the end of the function: dosym ../../../share/doc/${PF} /usr/X11R6/$(get_libdir)/X11/doc There is probably no ${D}/usr/X11R6/lib directory yet at this step (actually, no ${D}/usr/X11R6 symlink, or no ${D}/usr/lib directory, i don't know). The result is that i don't have any /usrX11R6/lib/X11/doc once xorg is installed. I don't know what this link is useful for and if it's worth fixing it or just dropping it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-tgl3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-tgl3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9 Python: dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5,dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1,dev-lang/python-2.1.3-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 8 2005, 20:23:24)] ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.4-r1, 2.1.3-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -mtune=pentium-m -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /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/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/cursors/xfree/default /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/X11/Sessions /etc/dev.d /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/hotplug /etc/hotplug.d /etc/init.d /etc/sound /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -mtune=pentium-m -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildsyspkg digest distlocks fixpackages manifest sandbox sfperms userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/gentoo" LANG="fr_FR@euro" LC_ALL="fr_FR@euro" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/var/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/portage/tree" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/portage/overlays/bmg-filtered /var/portage/overlays/bugzilla /var/portage/overlays/tgl" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X Xaw3d aalib acpi adns alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr cross crypt cscope cups curl dba dga dvd dvdr encode esd f77 faad fbcon ffmpeg flac flash foomaticdb fortran freetype gd gdbm ggz gif gnome gnomedb gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 ipv6 java jikes jpeg junit lcms leim libcaca libg++ libwww lirc mad mailwrapper matroska mbox memlimit mikmod mmx mng mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pdflib perl plotutils png pnp python qt quicktime readline ruby ruby18 scanner sdl slang slp smooth snmp speex spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff tmpfs truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis wmf wxwindows xface xfs xinerama xml xml2 xosd xprint xv xvid xvmc zeo zlib video_cards_radeon input_devices_synaptics linguas_fr linguas_fr_FR linguas_en linguas_en_US" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS # grep xorg-x11 /etc/portage/package.use x11-base/xorg-x11 doc insecure-drivers bitmap-fonts truetype-fonts type1-fonts font-server dlloader # emerge -pv xorg-x11 [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2 -3dfx -3dnow +bitmap-fonts -cjk -debug +dlloader -dmx +doc +font-server -hardened +insecure-drivers +ipv6 -minimal +mmx +nls +opengl +pam -sdk +sse -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) +xprint +xv (I've got a PORTLOG_DIR detailed log file, so in case you need it, just ask.)
Yeah that's likely the problem -- I've seen it before and it's basically unimportant.
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