Is there a way to run emerge step by step to find out why it fails ? ///
I get this: make[1]: Entering directory '/Net/gentoo/tmpdir/portage/dev-lang/R-4.0.4/work/R-4.0.4/doc' make[1]: Leaving directory '/Net/gentoo/tmpdir/portage/dev-lang/R-4.0.4/work/R-4.0.4' help2man: can't get `--version' info from ../bin/R make[1]: *** [Makefile:46: R.1] Error 255 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... Error: package or namespace load failed for ?<80><98>methods?<80><99>: .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'methods', details: call: (function (n) error: lazy-load database '/Net/gentoo/tmpdir/portage/dev-lang/R-4.0.4/work/R-4.0.4/library/methods/R/methods.rdb' is corrupt During startup - Warning messages: 1: In (function (n) : internal error -4 in R_decompress1 2: package "methods" in options("defaultPackages") was not found make[1]: Leaving directory '/Net/gentoo/tmpdir/portage/dev-lang/R-4.0.4/work/R-4.0.4/doc' but ../bin/R --version works: # cd /Net/gentoo/tmpdir/portage/dev-lang/R-4.0.4/work/R-4.0.4/doc # ../bin/R --version WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME R version 4.0.4 (2021-02-15) -- "Lost Library Book" Copyright (C) 2021 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License versions 2 or 3. For more information about these matters see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/. # /// I also get segfault: begin installing recommended package MASS begin installing recommended package lattice Segmentation fault make[2]: *** [Makefile:53: MASS.ts] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... * installing *source* package ?<80><98>codetools?<80><99> ... ** package ?<80><98>codetools?<80><99> successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** using non-staged installation /// Full build log is here: http://aspodata.se/tmp/build.log Regards, /Karl Hammar