Bugzilla Bug 50088

Trying to upgrade from version 0.11.49, I get this error message in install
phase

Making install in po
make[1]: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/gentoo-0.11.50/work/gentoo-0.11.50/po'
/bin/sh `case ".././mkinstalldirs" in /*) echo ".././mkinstalldirs" ;; *) echo
"../.././mkinstalldirs" ;; esac`
/var/tmp/portage/gentoo-0.11.50/image//usr/share../.././mkinstalldirs:
../.././mkinstalldirs: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [install-data-yes] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/gentoo-0.11.50/work/gentoo-0.11.50/po'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

!!! ERROR: app-misc/gentoo-0.11.50 failed.
!!! Function einstall, Line 388, Exitcode 2
!!! einstall failed

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -u app-misc/gentoo

Actual Results:  
The install phase failed with an error (see above).

Expected Results:  
Install the package cleanly.

Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420-r0,
2.6.5-gentoo-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.60GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10
distcc 2.14 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups dvd encode esd foomaticdb gdbm
gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif
mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt
quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd threads truetype x86
xml2 xmms xv zlib"

Created an attachment (id=30779) [edit]
patch that solves the problem

this is a bug in a Makefile that comes with gentoo (not the distribution, but
the filemanager). here is a patch that fixes the issue.

I reckon this should be reported upstream, so the (filemanager) gentoo people
can fix this bug in their package. There is no problem with the ebuild.

for now, apply the patch as follows:
be root
emerge app-misc/gentoo
hit Ctrl-z just when configure starts
copy the patch to /var/tmp/portage/gentoo-0.11.50/work/
cd to /var/tmp/portage/gentoo-0.11.50/work/
execute 'patch -p0 < gentoo-installfix.diff'
cd ~
execute 'fg' 

-> gentoo merges cleanly :)

Attached patch fixes this problem for me as well.

*** Bug 50344 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

.51 fixes this issue. thanks guys.