in cases where the directory /var/cache/apache2 does not exist (fresh install of gentoo). After creating the directory apache2 starts successful with '-D SSL' Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 4 2005, 18:20:03)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi aim alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cddb cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd ethereal fam font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib innodb ipv6 java jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww live lm_sensors mad mbox mikmod mmx mmx2 mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-s ncurses network nls no-old-linux ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline rtc samba scanner sdl spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vorbis xfs xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_de linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Me too(tm). However, unlike in the reporter's case, this actually occurred after a rebuild of apache-2.0.52-r1 (i.e. the same version was already installed and working prior). Creating the directory corrected the issue as described above.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91455 ***
