Problem solved! caster at b.g.o. suggested running Must be some orphan file. Try grep ant-junit /usr/share/*/package.env
which found CLASSPATH and DEPEND lines in .../ant-tasks/package.env. After removing the ant-junit references, emerge gave a different error message. I then disabled all the /usr/share/ant* directories by renaming them to /usr/share/ant*.xxx After running the following commands (with results shown): 1) emerge ant-junit failed saying "!!! ERROR: Package ant-core was not found!" 2) emerge ant-core succeeded 3) emerge eclipse-sdk successfully built multiple packages until dev-java/ant-apache-bcel-1.7.1 failed saying "!!! ERROR: Package ant-nodeps was not found!" 4) emerge ant-nodeps succeeded emerge eclipse-sdk has succeeded !!! Conclusions: 1 - jar file references in /usr/share/ant-tasks/package.env caused the error messages I didn't understand 2 - ant-nodeps is needed for ant-apache-bcel, but is incorrect in the ebuild 3 - install problem has been solved
