Emerging binutils-2.16.92 into a new SLOT, I get the following error: config.status: executing default commands make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/build/binutils' Making info in doc make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/build/binutils/doc' rm -f config.texi eval `grep '^ *VERSION=' /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/binutils-2.16.92/binutils/doc/../../bfd/configure`; \ echo "@set VERSION $VERSION" > config.texi echo "@set UPDATED `date "+%B %Y"`" >> config.texi echo "@set top_srcdir /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/binutils-2.16.92/binutils" >> config.texi restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \ am__cwd=`pwd` && cd /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/binutils-2.16.92/binutils/doc && \ rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \ for f in /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/binutils-2.16.92/binutils/doc/binutils.info /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/binutils-2.16.92/binutils/doc/binutils.info-[0-9] /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/binutils-2.16.92/binutils/doc/binutils.info-[0-9][0-9] /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/binutils-2.16.92/binutils/doc/binutils.i[0-9] /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/binutils-2.16.92/binutils/doc/binutils.i[0-9][0-9]; do \ if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \ done; \ cd "$am__cwd"; \ if makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000 -I /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/binutils-2.16.92/binutils/doc \ -o /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/binutils-2.16.92/binutils/doc/binutils.info /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/binutils-2.16.92/binutils/doc/binutils.texi; \ then \ rc=0; \ cd /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/binutils-2.16.92/binutils/doc; \ else \ rc=$?; \ cd /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/binutils-2.16.92/binutils/doc && \ $restore $backupdir/* `echo ".//var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/binutils-2.16.92/binutils/doc/binutils.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \ fi; \ rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/binutils-2.16.92/binutils/doc/binutils.texi:3528: @include `../.././binutils/../libiberty/at-file.texi': No such file or directory. makeinfo: Removing output file `/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/binutils-2.16.92/binutils/doc/binutils.info' due to errors; use --force to preserve. mv: target `.//var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/binutils-2.16.92/binutils/doc/' is not a directory: No such file or directory make[3]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/binutils-2.16.92/binutils/doc/binutils.info] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/build/binutils/doc' Making info in po make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/build/binutils/po' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `info'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/build/binutils/po' make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/build/binutils' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `info-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/build/binutils' make[2]: *** [info-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/build/binutils' make[1]: *** [all-binutils] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.92/work/build' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: sys-devel/binutils-2.16.92 failed. Portage 2.1_pre7-r5 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-4.1.0, glibc-2.4-r1, 2.6.16-ck2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-ck2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre17 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] 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-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1, 2.16.91.0.6, 2.16.91.0.7 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="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-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/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -ffriend-injection" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache confcache distlocks metadata-transfer nostrip parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/bmg-main /usr/local/gentopia /usr/local/xgl-coffee /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X aac alsa apache2 avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli crypt ctype cups dba dbus debug dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd expat fastbuild firefox flac foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde ldap lzw lzw-tiff mad memlimit mono mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam pcre pdflib perl pic png posix pppd python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl session simplexml soap sockets spell spl sqlite ssl tcpd theora tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vorbis xml xml2 xpm xsl xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_vga video_cards_vesa" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
oops, looks like i committed 2.16.92 with the workaround for this issue commented out ... re-enabled in cvs