Bugzilla Bug 123418

Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3,
2.6.15-gentoo-r1tb i686)
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System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1tb i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU
1.80GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2
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="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env
/usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://fast.private.com/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X acl alsa apm aredmem arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2
cddb crypt cups curl eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam firefox flac
foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 idn
imagemagick imlib ipv6 jpeg kde lcms libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mng motif
moznocompose mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre
pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline real ruby samba sdl spell ssl svga
tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xml2 xmms
xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

tb ~ # emerge -uD world
Calculating world dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 77) app-admin/eselect-1.0 to /
>>> checksums files   ;-) eselect-0.9.6.ebuild
>>> checksums files   ;-) eselect-1.0.ebuild
>>> checksums files   ;-) eselect-1.0_rc1.ebuild
>>> checksums files   ;-) eselect-1.0_rc2.ebuild
>>> checksums files   ;-) files/digest-eselect-1.0_rc1
>>> checksums files   ;-) files/digest-eselect-0.9.6
>>> checksums files   ;-) files/digest-eselect-1.0_rc2
>>> checksums files   ;-) files/digest-eselect-1.0
>>> checksums src_uri ;-) eselect-1.0.tar.bz2
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking eselect-1.0.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/eselect-1.0/work
>>> Source unpacked.
>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/eselect-1.0/work/eselect-1.0 ...
 * econf: updating eselect-1.0/config/config.guess with
/usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess
 * econf: updating eselect-1.0/config/config.sub with
/usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub
./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc
--localstatedir=/var/lib --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
expr: error in regular expression matcher: Value too large for defined data
type
expr: error in regular expression matcher: Value too large for defined data
type
expr: error in regular expression matcher: Value too large for defined data
type
expr: error in regular expression matcher: Value too large for defined data
type
expr: error in regular expression matcher: Value too large for defined data
type
expr: error in regular expression matcher: Value too large for defined data
type
expr: error in regular expression matcher: Value too large for defined data
type
expr: error in regular expression matcher: Value too large for defined data
type
configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --datadir:

!!! ERROR: app-admin/eselect-1.0 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 489, Exitcode 0
!!! econf failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

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