Today I updated my xterm to xterm-227. In the make install step it suddenly hang. <snip> ... installing /var/tmp/portage/x11-terms/xterm-227/image//usr/bin/uxterm /bin/sh ./mkdirs.sh /var/tmp/portage/x11-terms/xterm-227/image//usr/share/man/man1 mkdir /var/tmp/portage/x11-terms/xterm-227/image/usr/share mkdir /var/tmp/portage/x11-terms/xterm-227/image/usr/share/man mkdir /var/tmp/portage/x11-terms/xterm-227/image/usr/share/man/man1 /bin/sh ./minstall.sh "/usr/bin/install -c -m 644" ./xterm.man /var/tmp/portage/x11-terms/xterm-227/image//usr/share/man/man1/`echo xterm| sed 's,x,x,'`.1 /usr/share/X11/app-defaults </snip> After this nothing happens. After a second or so nothing continued to happen ;). I looked into minstall.sh and found this: <snip> # "X" is usually in the miscellaneous section, along with "undocumented". # Use that to guess an appropriate section. X_MANSECT=`man X 2>&1 | tr '\012' '\020' | sed -e 's/^[^0123456789]*\([^) ][^) ]*\).*/\1/'` </snip> But I got this in my env: MANPAGER=col -b | vim -u /usr/share/vim/vim71/macros/less.vim -c "set ft=man" - So vim was called and everything hung. When I did unset MANPAGER and emerged again it worked like a charm. Please insert that 'unset MANPAGER' to the ebuild or somewhere along the road. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge xterm Actual Results: Uhm...emerge doesnt finish? Expected Results: I'd like it to install xterm :)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 56407 ***
