Bugzilla Bug 54466

checking for mkdir... yes
checking for select... yes
checking for strstr... yes
checking for main in -lvga... yes
checking for main in -lncurses... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
cd . && \
  CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS= \
  CONFIG_FILES=Makefile /bin/sh ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile

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emerge --info
Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.4.0, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.5-gentoo-r1)
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System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1700+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
distcc 2.14 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X aac aalib accessibility acl acpi acpi4linux alsa amd apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid audiofile avi berkdb bidi bonobo canna cdr cjk cjkcrypt crypt cscope cups dga directfb divx4linux doc dv dvb dvd encode esd evms2 faad fam fbcon ffmpeg flac flash foomaticdb freetype freewnn fs gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imap imlib jack java javascript joystick jpeg kde kerberos krb4 ldap libcss libdvdread libg++ libwww mad maildir md5sum mdb mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mpeg4 mule mysql nas ncurses net nls nptl nvidia oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png postgres python qt quicktime readline samba sasl scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff transcode truetype unicode usb v4l vhosts virus-scan x86 xine xinerama xml2 xmms xv xvid zeo zlib"

happens with gcc 3.3 and 3.4

(gcc-config 1)
(gcc-config 2)

also, strace doesn't show anything interesting...

any ideas on how to debug this?

also, the site is in chineese :(
      Homepage:    http://jmcce.slat.org

cjk herd - this is yours :)

I did a bit more looking into this

bash-2.05b# pwd
/var/tmp/portage/jmcce-1.4_rc2/work/jmcce-1.4RC2


bash-2.05b# ./genconf.sh
autoheader-2.59: WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', `config.h.bot'
autoheader-2.59: WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for `config.h.in'
autoheader-2.59: WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged.
autoheader-2.59:
autoheader-2.59: WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and
autoheader-2.59: WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a template without
autoheader-2.59: WARNING: `acconfig.h':
autoheader-2.59:
autoheader-2.59: WARNING:   AC_DEFINE([NEED_FUNC_MAIN], 1,
autoheader-2.59:                [Define if a function `main' is needed.])
autoheader-2.59:
autoheader-2.59: WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the
autoheader-2.59: WARNING: documentation.
configure.in:3: warning: do not use m4_patsubst: use patsubst or m4_bpatsubst
aclocal.m4:81: AM_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded from...
configure.in:3: the top level
configure.in:36: warning: AC_CANONICAL_HOST invoked multiple times
configure.in:97: warning: do not use m4_regexp: use regexp or m4_bregexp
aclocal.m4:94: _AM_DIRNAME is expanded from...
configure.in:97: the top level
automake-1.5: src/Makefile.am: Assembler source seen but `ASFLAGS' not defined in `configure.in'
src/Makefile.am:1: invalid unused variable name: `JMCCE_EXTRAS_SOURCES'


./configure

config.status: include/config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing default-1 commands


make

...

checking for main in -lncurses... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
cd . && \
  CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS= \
  CONFIG_FILES=Makefile /bin/sh ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: executing default-1 commands
Making all in extras
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/jmcce-1.4_rc2/work/jmcce-1.4RC2/extras'
cd .. && \
  CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS= \
  CONFIG_FILES=extras/Makefile /bin/sh ./config.status
config.status: creating extras/Makefile
config.status: executing default-1 commands
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/jmcce-1.4_rc2/work/jmcce-1.4RC2/extras'
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/jmcce-1.4_rc2/work/jmcce-1.4RC2/extras'
Making all in chewing
make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/jmcce-1.4_rc2/work/jmcce-1.4RC2/extras/chewing'
Makefile:239: *** missing separator.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/jmcce-1.4_rc2/work/jmcce-1.4RC2/extras/chewing'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/jmcce-1.4_rc2/work/jmcce-1.4RC2/extras'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
bash-2.05b#

Fixed in CVS. Thanks for the bug report.