# emerge posh [...] >>> emerge (1 of 1) app-shells/posh-0.2.28 to / [...] config.status: config.h is unchanged ./siglist.sh "i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -E -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I." < ./siglist.in> tmpsiglist.out In file included from sh.h:93, from tmpi12856.c:1: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5-20050130/include/varargs.h:4:2: #error"GCC no longer implements <varargs.h>." /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5-20050130/include/varargs.h:5:2: #error"Revise your code to use <stdarg.h>." trap: usage: trap [-lp] [arg signal_spec ...] make: *** [siglist.out] Error 2 -------------//------------- After correcting the <varargs.h> problem (using Portage Overlay): [...] config.status: config.h is unchanged ./siglist.sh "i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -E -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I." < ./siglist.in> tmpsiglist.out trap: usage: trap [-lp] [arg signal_spec ...] make: *** [siglist.out] Error 2 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge posh Expected Results: Emerged posh. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) 2500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5,dev-lang/python-2.4.1-r1 [2.4.1 (#1,Jun 17 2005, 23:54:35)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.5, 1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /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="-O2 -mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.rnl.ist.utl.pt/gentoo http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/gentoo http://gentoo.felisberto.net http://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/Linux/gentoo" LANG="pt_PT.UTF-8" LINGUAS="pt en fr ar bg bn bo br ca cs cy da de el en_GB eo es et eu fa fi ga he hi hr hu ia ie is it ja ko la ne nl no pa pl ro sk sl sv uk zh_CN zh_TW" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://ftp.rnl.ist.utl.pt/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa apache2 apm arts atlas audiofile avi bash-completion bcmath berkdb bidi bindist bitmap-fonts bluetooth bonobo calendar canna cdparanoia cdr chasen cjk cpdflib crypt cscope ctype cups curl curlwrappers dba dbase dbus dbx dga dio directfb divx4linux dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd evo exif expat fam fastcgi fbcon ffmpeg fftwflac flash foomaticdb fortran freetds freetype freewnn ftp gb gcj gd gdbm geoipggi gif ginac glut gmp gnome gnustep gnutls gphoto2 gpm gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal howl iconv icq ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib inifile ipv6 jabber jack java javascript jikes joystick jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas kerberos krb4 ladcca lcms ldap leim lesstif libcaca libedit libg++ libgda libwww lirc lmsensors mad maildir mailwrapper matroska mbox mcal memlimit mhash migemo mikmod milter mime ming mmap mmx mmxext mng mnogosearch mono motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mpi msession msn msql mssql mule mysql mysqli nas ncurses neXt netboot netcdf nis nls nocd nptl odbc ofx ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oracle osc oscar osspam pcntl pcre pda pdflib perl pfro php plotutils png portaudio posix postgres ppds prelude python qt quicktime readline recode ruby samba sapdb sasl scanner sdl session sharedext sharedmem shorten simplexml skey slang slp sndfile snmp soap sockets socks5 sox speex spell spl sse ssl svg svga sybase sysvipc szip tcltk tcpd tetex theora tidy tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l vcd vhosts videos vorbis wddx wifi win32codecs wmf wxwindows xface xine xinerama xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xosd xpm xprint xsl xv xvid yahoo zlib linguas_pt linguas_en linguas_fr linguas_ar linguas_bg linguas_bn linguas_bo linguas_br linguas_ca linguas_cs linguas_cy linguas_da linguas_de linguas_el linguas_en_GB linguas_eo linguas_es linguas_et linguas_eu linguas_fa linguas_fi linguas_ga linguas_he linguas_hi linguas_hr linguas_hu linguas_ia linguas_ie linguas_is linguas_it linguas_ja linguas_ko linguas_la linguas_ne linguas_nl linguas_no linguas_palinguas_pl linguas_ro linguas_sk linguas_sl linguas_sv linguas_uk linguas_zh_CNlinguas_zh_TW userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
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FYI Debian lists 0.3.14 as stable http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=posh I image they would of fixed this kind of compile problem.
Creating the posh-0.3.14 ebuild in Portage Overlay did the trick. 0.3.14 is the Debian Stable version.
Reopening. The version in portage needs version bump (or the ebuild should be dropped altogether).
version bumped to 0.3.18