Bugzilla Bug 148380

Emerge libusb fails in this configuration with:
***** aclocal *****

am-wrapper: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.8 is missing or not executable.
            Please try emerging the correct version of automake.


emerge info:
Portage 2.1.2_pre1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3,
2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5
Last Sync: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:20:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.6-r1, 2.0.29
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r3
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r6
dev-util/confcache:  0.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo
/etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox
sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/
http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="de_DE@euro"
LC_ALL="de_DE@euro"
LINGUAS="de"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 bash-completion berkdb
bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdr cli crypt css cups curl dbus dlloader
dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc emboss fam ffmpeg firefox fortran gdbm hal hbci
howl input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal
kdehiddenvisibility kernel_linux libg++ linguas_de lm_sensors mad mmx mmxext
mozcalendar mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly
nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl pam pcre pdf perl pic png ppds pppd profile python
qt3 quicktime readline real reflection samba session slang slp spell spl sse
ssl svg tcpd threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev userland_GNU
video_cards_none video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia vorbis win32codecs x264
xcomposite xml xorg xv xvid xvmc zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS

With 'emerge --oneshot =sys-devel/automake-1.8*' it works again

fixed in cvs