Bugzilla Bug 123338

When I do an update I recieve the following error when emerging gtk+-2.8.12:

!!! ERROR: x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.12 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1894:   Called dyn_unpack
  ebuild.sh, line 694:   Called src_unpack
  gtk+-2.8.12.ebuild, line 94:   Called eautoreconf
  autotools.eclass, line 68:   Called eautomake
  autotools.eclass, line 149:   Called autotools_run_tool 'unpack' 'automake'
'--add-missing'

!!! Failed Running automake !
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if
relevant.

The error appears to occur in automake so I have included the contents of
/var/tmp/portage/gtk+-2.8.12/tmp/automake in this as well:


***** automake *****

/usr/bin/autoconf-2.59: line 49:  8805 Segmentation fault      expr a : '\(a\)'
>/dev/null 2>&1
/usr/bin/autom4te-2.59: unrecognized option `--trace='
Try `/usr/bin/autom4te-2.59 --help' for more information.
configure.in: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
configure.in: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal).
automake-1.7: no `Makefile.am' found or specified



Emerge Info:

Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3,
2.6.15-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor
4400+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon64 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon64 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo
ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X alsa arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd eds emboss
encode foomaticdb fortran gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 ieee1394 imlib ipv6 jpeg
kde lzw lzw-tiff mime mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nvidia opengl pam pdflib perl png
python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd threads tiff truetype-fonts
type1-fonts usb userlocales v4l xine xinerama xpm xv zlib elibc_glibc
kernel_linux userland_GNU"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

Please use "New -> Gentoo Linux -> Component: Ebuilds" in future.
Infrastructure is not the correct addressee.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123342 ***