X-Chat 1.9.2 emerge problems

[pmj]

/bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/share/pixmaps
/bin/install -c -m 644 ./xchat.png /usr/share/pixmaps/xchat.png
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/pixmaps/xchat.png
/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/pixmaps/xchat.png': Permission denied

I get that error message when trying to emerge xchat 1.9.2 ... anyone with any ideas?
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[Bosnian[X]]

hmm...seems like u trying to install XChat like regular user....
"su root" and than try to install it

[pmj]

that's what it looks like, but emerge doesn't work unless you're root. I'm root.
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[KiTaSuMbA]

Access violation: this seems to be the same kind of problem I met while trying to emerge nmap 2.54-beta36. While I do not know why this happens this is how I worked around it.
What fails here is the make install target. That means that the actual software is already compiled and can be found at /var/tmp/portage/<package>/image/ in the relative dirs. So you push the files down the system's throat manually in the supposed-to-be places and voila! It works. To have less nuissance by the portage, you can then inject the package and go on with your life.
It's definatelly not a clean trick but at least it works (and you avoid compiling by hand anyway . )
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[Mishima]

I had the same problem and this is the solution i found in the forums:
Since it is a sandbox problem (not even root has permissions) you can complete the ebuild just disabling the sandbox protection feature:

[xwild]

I just recompiled everything on my box using GCC 3.1-r7. Everything went beautifully, up till I hit xchat. (emerge -pe world was the command used). Then I got this same error as well. Am trying the SANDBOX_DISABLED=1 trick, will inform if it gets around the problem.