Emerging with FEATURES=-confcache fixes it... If you're really interested in the config.log, I can invoke it again and attach it. [...] * econf: updating rpm-4.2/zlib/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating rpm-4.2/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess /usr/bin/confcache --confcache-ignore /var/tmp/.distcc --confcache-dir /var/tmp/confcache ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-posixmutexes --without-javaglue --with-python=2.4 --enable-nls --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu configure: loading cache config.cache checking build system type... (cached) i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... (cached) i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... config.sub: missing argument Try `config.sub --help' for more information. configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub failed !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /var/tmp/portage/rpm-4.2-r2/work/rpm-4.2/config.log !!! ERROR: app-arch/rpm-4.2-r2 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1545: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 940: Called src_compile rpm-4.2-r2.ebuild, line 56: Called econf '--enable-posixmutexes' '--without-javaglue' '--with-python=2.4' '--enable-nls' ebuild.sh, line 541: Called die !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. slon ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.1_pre3-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [disabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: 0.4.2-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-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-tbird -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /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/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-tbird -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect confcache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.suchdol.czf/ http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/gentoo/gentoo ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/gentoo" LINGUAS="en cs" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 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 /usr/local/portage-chewi-overlay" SYNC="rsync://pstros.basa.dejvice.czf/gentoo-portage/" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib acpi akode alsa arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cli crypt cups curl dga dlloader dri dts dv dvd dvdread enca encode exif flac foomaticdb gd gdbm gif glut gmp gphoto2 gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 irda isdnlog jabber java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdepim lcms ldap libg++ libwww logrotate mad matrox mikmod mmx mmxext mng mozsvg mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nodrm nptl ogg oggvorbis openal openexr opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png povray pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection ruby samba sasl sdl session slang sms speex spell spl ssl subversion tcltk tcpd tga theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb visualization vorbis win32codecs wmf xanim xine xml2 xmms xorg xv xvid xvmc zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux linguas_en linguas_cs userland_GNU video_cards_mga" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
rm -rf /var/tmp/confcache (or disable confcache). Reopen if you have a patch, otherwise confcache is package.masked.
