I find that many texlive packages, such as texlive-latex-2008-r1 fail to build because of the missing/not created directory: >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2008-r1/work ... * Building format texmf/fmtutil/format.latex.cnf fmtutil: format directory `/var/tmp/portage/dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2008-r1/work/texmf-var/web2c' does not exist. * * ERROR: dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2008-r1 failed. Once the directory is created by hand, the package builds fine. Is someone else experiencing this problem? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2008-r1 Actual Results: Compilation failed. Expected Results: Compilation succeed.
This forum thread looks relevant: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-698996-highlight-web2c+texlive.html Could you show all the texlive (and tetex, if any) packages you currently have installed? Also, please post your 'emerge --info' output.
Installed packages: equery list texlive [ Searching for package 'texlive' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] app-text/texlive-core-2008-r5 (0) [I--] [ ] dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2008 (0) [I--] [ ] dev-texlive/texlive-documentation-base-2008 (0) [I--] [ ] dev-texlive/texlive-fontsrecommended-2008 (0) [I--] [ ] dev-texlive/texlive-genericrecommended-2008 (0) [I--] [ ] dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2008-r1 (0) [I--] [ ] dev-texlive/texlive-latexrecommended-2008-r2 (0) [I--] [ ] dev-texlive/texlive-texinfo-2008 (0) emerge --info: Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.27-gentoo-r8beju i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8beju-i686-Genuine_Intel-R-_CPU_T2250_@_1.73GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r3 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 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, 1.9.6-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="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=prescott -s -O2 -pipe -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" 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/splash /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=prescott -s -O2 -pipe -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch prelink protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.netnitco.net/ " LANG="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_ALL="pl_PL.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="pl en ja utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/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="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/my_overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aiglx alsa amr apache2 avi berkdb bluetooth branding browserplugin bzip2 bzlib cairo canna cdr cjk cli composite cracklib crypt cups curl curlwrappers d dbus directfb divx4linux doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread edl emerald encode examples extras fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac flash flex fpx ftp fuse gcj gdbm gif glib glitz glut gnome gnutls gpm graphviz gs gtk gtk2 hal iconv idn ieee1394 imap imlib immqt irda isdnlog jabber jack java javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k libcaca libwww lirc lm_sensors mad matroska midi mikmod mmx mng mono motif mozdevelop mozdom mp3 mpeg msn mudflap mysql mythtv ncurses netlink network networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp oss pam pcmcia pcre pdf pdflib perl php png pni pnp portaudio posix pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime quictime readline reflection samba schroedinger sdl seamonkey session slang smp sndfile snmp socks5 spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 svg svga symlink sysfs tcpd tetex tga theora threads tidy tiff tlen truetype udev unicode urandom usb v4l v4l2 videos vim-syntax vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows x264 x86 xcomposite xine xml xml2 xorg xosd xv xvid xvmc 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 mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon 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 deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="pl en ja utf8" NETBEANS_MODULES="apisupport harness ide java nb websvccommon cnd groovy gsf identity j2ee mobility php profiler soa visualweb webcommon xml" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i915 i810 fbdev vesafb vesa vga intel" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Please read http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml#doc_chap4 and provide the relevant info for your failure when reopening the bug.
