Configure fails already, see below the output. Let me know if you need more info. configure: loading cache config.cache checking build system type... (cached) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... (cached) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... config.sub: missing argument Try `config.sub --help' for more information. configure: error: /bin/sh config/config.sub failed !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /var/tmp/portage/tiff-3.8.2-r2/work/tiff-3.8.2/config.log !!! ERROR: media-libs/tiff-3.8.2-r2 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1543: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 938: Called src_compile tiff-3.8.2-r2.ebuild, line 35: Called econf '--enable-cxx' '--enable-zlib' '--enable-jpeg' '--disable-jbig' '--with-pic' '--without-x' ebuild.sh, line 539: Called die -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /var/tmp/portage/tiff-3.8.2-r2/work/tiff-3.8.2/config.log: ## ----------- ## ## Core tests. ## ## ----------- ## configure:1452: loading cache config.cache configure:1597: checking build system type configure:1615: result: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu configure:1623: checking host system type configure:1637: result: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu configure:1645: checking target system type configure:1654: error: /bin/sh config/config.sub failed -------------------------------------------------------- emerge info Last Sync: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 13:50:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: 2.0.0_rc2-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r2 dev-util/confcache: 0.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.0.0_rc1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.16 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-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/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache confcache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="de_DE.utf8" LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8" LINGUAS="en de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" 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.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr chipcard cli crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dv dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode exif fam firefox foomaticdb fortran gcj gif gimp glitz gmp gnome gphoto2 gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal hbci ieee1394 imlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kernel_linux lcms leim libnotify linguas_de linguas_en lirc lzw lzw-tiff mad mng mp3 mpeg musicbrainz mysql nautilus ncurses nls nomotif nptl nptlonly offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pda pdflib perl png pppd print python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session speex spell spl sqlite ssl svg t1lib tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userland_GNU utf8 v4l v4l2 video_cards_ati video_cards_radeon video_cards_vesa vorbis xinerama xml2 xorg xpm xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS
rm -rf /var/tmp/confcache and/or remove confcache from your FEATURES.