dev-tex/mh, pulled in as a dependency from app-text/texlive-2008 (and its last dependency which needs to be build) fails. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: USE="X extra png science truetype -cjk -context -cyrillic -detex -doc -dvi2tty -dvipdfm -games -graphics -humanities -jadetex -latex3 -music -omega -pstricks -publishers -tex4ht -xetex -xindy -xml" emerge =app-text/texlive-2008 Actual Results: >>> Emerging (1 of 2) dev-tex/mh-20080903 * mh-20080903.zip RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking mh-20080903.zip to /var/tmp/portage/dev-tex/mh-20080903/work >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/dev-tex/mh-20080903/work >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-tex/mh-20080903/work/mh ... This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (Web2C 7.5.7) ---! //var/lib/texmf/web2c/tex.fmt doesn't match tex.pool (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) * * ERROR: dev-tex/mh-20080903 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2488: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * tex ${i} || die "TeXing ${i} failed"; * The die message: * TeXing breqn.dtx failed Note the double slash at the beginning of //var/lib/texmf/web2c/tex.fmt The file /var/lib/texmf/web2c/tex.fmt does exist but `equery belongs` can't find the package to which it belongs.
emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc33 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.28-tuxonice-r8 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-tuxonice-r8-x86_64-Intel-R-_Celeron-R-_M_CPU_530_@_1.73GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 17 May 2009 02:15:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT=" [...] " CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /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/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/src/portage/distfiles/" FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF8" LC_ALL="de_DE.UTF8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de en_US en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/src/portage/packages/" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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="/srv/portage" SYNC="rsync://serv.binarywings.net/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 caps cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gdbm gnome gpm iconv isdnlog midi mmx mmxext mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pam pcre pppd readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification sysfs tcpd unicode xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="info log_config status dir authz_host mime" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en_US en" NETBEANS_MODULES="apisupport harness ide java nb websvccommon j2ee visualweb webcommon xml groovy gsf php soa" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa i810 intel" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
I guess you should read http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml end of paragraph 1 specifically.
Thanks and sorry for the noise! I've been using texlive for over a year now and the problem hit me just now.