Guile 1.5.4 fails to configure with an emerge with the following error: configure: configuring in libltdl configure: running /bin/sh './configure' --prefix=/usr --host=alpha-unknown-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --with-threads --with-modules 'CFLAGS=-mcpu=ev56 -O2 -pipe ' host_alias=alpha-unknown-linux-gnu --enable-ltdl-convenience --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=. configure: warning: CFLAGS=-mcpu=ev56 -O2 -pipe : invalid host type configure: warning: host_alias=alpha-unknown-linux-gnu: invalid host type configure: error: can only configure for one host and one target at a time configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for libltdl sed: can't read confdefs.h: No such file or directory !!! ERROR: dev-util/guile-1.5.4 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 11, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed
How is this "critical"? Is guile-1.5.4 required for some application? GNU is not even providing 1.5.4 any longer because it was a development version. The currently available version is 1.6.3. I'm questioning this because ./configure seems to be very broken on alpha, and autoconf can't figure out configure.in either. Not sure it's really worth spending time on.
It's most likely NOT critical...I filed this bug when I was very new to gentoo and also very new to bugzilla...live and learn I guess huh? Sorry bout that Aron!
Doing a little more investigation, it appears that guile-1.5.4 is in package.mask because it breaks things at the moment. So I'm going to close this bug, anticipating that eventually guile-1.6.3 will be added to the tree and we can chase it on alpha at that point.
