the exact ebuild file is: /var/db/pkg/mail-client/mailx-8.1.2.20021129-r2/mailx-8.1.2.20021129-r2.ebuild there's a small typo on the 16th line of the script, it ends with a ^A instead of a double quote. removing that character, and putting a double quote fixed the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge mailx 2. 3.
There's nothing we can do about it as /var/db/pkg is different on every users system and is out of our direct control. Current ebuilds in CVS seem to be fine.
In fact a duplicate of bug 46096.
yep, i see that its a duplicate. I'm sorry for that, have tried searching thru bugzilla, but i didnt see any earlier entries so i posted the problem.
