While emerging twin-0.4.6 it seems to be compiled ok (with LOADS of warning) and install fails, here's the log: >>> Source compiled. >>> Test phase [not enabled]: app-misc/twin-0.4.6 >>> Install twin-0.4.6 into /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/image/ category app-misc make install -C include DESTDIR=/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/image/ make install -C docs DESTDIR=/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/image/ make install -C themes DESTDIR=/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/image/ make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/work/twin-0.4.6/include' make install -C Tutf DESTDIR=/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/image/ make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/work/twin-0.4.6/docs' /usr/bin/install -c -d /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/image//usr/share/man/man1 && \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 twin.1 /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/image//usr/share/man/man1 ; \ /usr/bin/install -c -d /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/image//usr/share/twin/docs make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/work/twin-0.4.6/themes' make install -C hw_gfx DESTDIR=/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/image/ make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/work/twin-0.4.6/include/Tutf' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/work/twin-0.4.6/include/Tutf' make install -C Tw DESTDIR=/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/image/ make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/work/twin-0.4.6/themes/hw_gfx' /usr/bin/install -c -d /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/image//usr/share/twin/themes/hw_gfx make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/work/twin-0.4.6/include/Tw' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/work/twin-0.4.6/include/Tw' make install -C TT DESTDIR=/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/image/ make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/work/twin-0.4.6/include/TT' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/work/twin-0.4.6/include/TT' make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/work/twin-0.4.6/include' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 README *.xpm /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/image//usr/share/twin/themes/hw_gfx /usr/bin/install: target `/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/image//usr/share/twin/themes/hw_gfx' is not a directory make[2]: *** [install-themes] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make install -C libs DESTDIR=/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/image/ make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/work/twin-0.4.6/themes/hw_gfx' make[1]: *** [install-dir-hw_gfx] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/twin-0.4.6/work/twin-0.4.6/themes' make: *** [install-dir-themes] Error 2 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.2.3, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.18-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r4 x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.40GHz Timestamp of tree: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:00:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.4 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk ftp://mirrors.blueyonder.co.uk/mirrors/gentoo http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ " MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib accessibility ada aiglx akamaru alsa amarok amazon amd64 apache2 arts artworkextra asf athena auctex audacious audiofile avahi avalon-framework avalon-logkit bcp berkdb big-tables bitmap-fonts bjam blas blender-game bogofilter bonobo boo branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cli corba cpudetection cracklib crypt css ctype cups cvs daap dbus dc1394 dcraw device-mapper dga divx djvu dnd doc dri dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dvi dxr3 effects emacs emerald encode eolconv escreen etwin examples exif expat extra extra-algorithms extra-cardsets extraengine extrafilters extraicons extramodules extras fame fat ffmpeg firefox flac fluidsynth fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gkrellm glade glep glib glitz glut gmail gmedia gnome gpm grace grammar graphviz gstreamer gtk gtkhtml guile gzip-el hal haskell hddtemp hfs howl httpd iconv imagemagick imlib inkjar isdnlog ithreads jack java javascript jfs jikes jingle jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal keyring lapack latex latin1 ldap ldb leim lesstif libcaca libffi libgda libnotify lm_sensors log4j lua lzo mad math md5sum midi mikmod mjpeg mng mono motif mozbranding mozdom mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap musicbrainz mysql ncurses neXt networkmanager nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia objc objc++ objc-gc ocaml ogg openal opengl openmp ots pam pascal pcre pdf perforce perl php pike png pop postgres postscript povray ppds pppd preview-latex pyste python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rar rdesktop readline realmedia reflection regex reiser4 reiserfs replytolist ruby samba sametime scsh sdl sdl-image seamonkey sensord servletapi session skins slang slp sndfile soap sound speex spell spl sql sqlite sqlite3 ssl startup-notification stream subtitles subversion svg svnserve t1lib tagwriting tcl tcltk tcpd tetex theora thesaurus threads tidy tiff timidity tk toolkit-scroll-bars tools truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts unicode usb utempter v4l v4l2 vcd vhosts vim-syntax visualization vorbis wmf wmp wordperfect wxwindows x264 xcomposite xface xfs xine xml xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xorg xpm xprint xrandr xscreensaver xsl xulrunner xv xvid yaz zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
you can try MAKEOPTS=-j1 ... ive looked at this before and didnt see any parallel issues though ...
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