The swig ebuild (swig-1.3.21.ebuild) does not install the html docs when 'doc' is contained in the USE flags. I'll attach the fairly trivial patch I made to fix this problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: $ emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 x86_64 12 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Apr 9 2005, 22:30:56)] distcc 2.13 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.9.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.2-r5 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-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/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="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo/ ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://linux.thai.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X acpi alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr crypt cscope cups curl dga doc dvd esd f77 fam fftw firefox flac font-server fortran gd gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java jp2 jpeg libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mikmod mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl plugin png python readline samba sdl slang spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vorbis xml xml2 xpm xrandr xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Created attachment 62675 [details] patch to make swig-1.3.21.ebuild install html docs I made this patch against the current stable version 1.3.21; perhaps it should have been against 1.3.24 which is the latest unstable...
Fixed in swig-1.3.25 (see Bug 104762).