After trying a emerge -uND system, app-i18n/man-pages-pl-20040401 doesn't emerge. "configure.in:3: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE". By removing "pl" from LINGUAS, I may emerge the other system packages to be updated. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Have "pl" set in the LINGUAS environment variable (/etc/make.conf) 2."emerge -uND system" or "emerge -1 man-pages-pl" Actual Results: Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) app-i18n/man-pages-pl-20040401 to / >>> md5 files ;-) man-pages-pl-20040401.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-man-pages-pl-20040401 >>> md5 src_uri ;-) man-PL01-04-2004.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking man-PL01-04-2004.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/man-pages-pl-20040401/work >>> Source unpacked. processing . Running aclocal ... /usr/share/aclocal/wxwin.m4:36: warning: underquoted definition of AM_OPTIONS_WXCONFIG run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal /usr/share/aclocal/wxwin.m4:59: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_WXCONFIG /usr/share/aclocal/pth.m4:43: warning: underquoted definition of _AC_PTH_ERROR /usr/share/aclocal/pth.m4:55: warning: underquoted definition of _AC_PTH_VERBOSE /usr/share/aclocal/pth.m4:61: warning: underquoted definition of AC_CHECK_PTH /usr/share/aclocal/pstoedit.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_PSTOEDIT /usr/share/aclocal/pilot-link.m4:1: warning: underquoted definition of AC_PILOT_LINK_HOOK /usr/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:202: warning: underquoted definition of AC_PATH_DPS_GUESS_GNUSTEP /usr/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:239: warning: underquoted definition of AC_PATH_DPS_GUESS /usr/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:333: warning: underquoted definition of AC_PATH_DPS_CHECK_LIB /usr/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:405: warning: underquoted definition of AC_PATH_DPS_CHECK_HEADER /usr/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:440: warning: underquoted definition of AC_PATH_DPS_CHECK /usr/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:450: warning: underquoted definition of AC_PATH_DPS /usr/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:525: warning: underquoted definition of AC_CHECK_DPS_NXAGENT /usr/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:558: warning: underquoted definition of AC_PATH_DPSET /usr/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:579: warning: underquoted definition of AC_PROG_PSWRAP /usr/share/aclocal/path_dps.m4:172: file `path_dps.m4' does not exist Running automake --gnu ... 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). configure.in: installing `./install-sh' configure.in: installing `./missing' Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL' Makefile.am: installing `./COPYING' Running autoconf ... configure.in:3: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. Running ./configure --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man ... configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used. ./configure: line 1218: syntax error near unexpected token `man-pages-pl,' ./configure: line 1218: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(man-pages-pl, 1.58)' !!! ERROR: app-i18n/man-pages-pl-20040401 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 32, Exitcode 2 !!! ./configure failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Expected Results: Just that it emerged correctly. Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) 2500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r1, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 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/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/fax /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 /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg 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 adns 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 fftw flac flash foomaticdb fortran freetds freetype freewnn ftp gb gcj gd gdbm geoip ggi 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 oss pam 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_pa linguas_pl linguas_ro linguas_sk linguas_sl linguas_sv linguas_uk linguas_zh_CN linguas_zh_TW userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-365609-highlight-gnomespell.html From this thread I learned that dgs was the cause for this particular bug. Just "emerge -C dgs" and emerge man-pages-pl and the problem is resolved.