> On Nov 15, 2015, at 13:01, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > >> Well it's not. It just checks all the manifests and complains about >> errors. It doesn't affect the building of 1.23.1-r1.
Ok. I must be using some different switch then. > Ah, OK. But it causes emerge to bail out, so never gets round to > building 1.23.1-r1. > >> If I were you I'ld download the latest portage snapshot. That should >> take care of any remaining issues. Is your portage upto date? > > I'd just synched my portage tree immediately before attempting the build. > I'll try again tomorrow, in the hope everything will have been sorted out > by then. Syncing and getting a new snapshot is a bit different. With a snapshot you get a new clean start. Download it and unpack. After that check that your portage package is upto date (emerge -av portage). -- -Matti