see also bug #109445, within which i first reported this issue. here is the what i tried hasiputi jlovick # emerge -pD pdftk These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-text/pdftk-1.12 USE="-nodrm" hasiputi jlovick # emerge -D pdftk Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-text/pdftk-1.12 to / >>> Downloading 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/pdftk_1.12-11.diff.gz' --10:03:45-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/pdftk_1.12-11.diff.gz => `/usr/portage/distfiles/pdftk_1.12-11.diff.gz' Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 216.165.129.135, 156.56.247.195, 64.50.236.52, ... Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|216.165.129.135|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 8,732 (8.5K) [application/x-gzip] 100%[==========================================================================================================================>] 8,732 32.75K/s 10:03:46 (32.67 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/pdftk_1.12-11.diff.gz' saved [8732/8732] >>> Downloading 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/pdftk-1.12.tar.gz' --10:03:46-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/pdftk-1.12.tar.gz => `/usr/portage/distfiles/pdftk-1.12.tar.gz' Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 216.165.129.135, 156.56.247.195, 64.50.238.52, ... Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|216.165.129.135|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 779,882 (762K) [application/x-gzip] 100%[==========================================================================================================================>] 779,882 63.49K/s ETA 00:00 10:03:58 (63.96 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/pdftk-1.12.tar.gz' saved [779882/779882] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking pdftk-1.12.tar.gz ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking pdftk_1.12-11.diff.gz ;-) ... [ ok ] * It seems that your system doesn't provides a Java compiler. * Re-emerge sys-devel/gcc with "gcj" enabled. !!! ERROR: app-text/pdftk-1.12 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1562: Called dyn_setup ebuild.sh, line 665: Called pkg_setup pdftk-1.12.ebuild, line 23: Called die !!! gcj not found. !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
Did you even read the message? * Re-emerge sys-devel/gcc with "gcj" enabled.
My point was that pdftk should in the ebuild check the build flags of gcc, so a emerge -pD should say that gcc needed to be recompiled with a particular use flag rather than waiting for it to fail on an actual build. maybe not a "bug" but certainly an ebuild quality issue!
Except that portage can't do that. Bug 2272
