emerge --info : Portage 2.1.1_pre4-r3 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1/vanilla, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: 2.0.0_rc2-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 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: 1.2.18.1 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: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-g -march=nocona -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-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/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-g -march=nocona -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache confcache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirror.uni-c.dk/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.mirrored.ca/ ftp://mirror.nutsmaas.nl/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo" 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm arts avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bootplash cli crypt cups dba dbus dlloader dri eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd firefox font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gentoo-xcursors gif gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imap imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog jpeg kbdev kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas kernel_linux keyboard libg++ libwww mad mbox mikmod mono mouse mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly offensive ogg opengl oracle oss pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev userland_GNU vesa video_cards_nv video_cards_vesa vim-pager vim-with-x vorbis xcursor-themes xml xorg xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS emerge =kde-base/kdetoys-3.5.4 -v : >>> Emerging (1 of 1) kde-base/kdetoys-3.5.4 to / * kdetoys-3.5.4.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-) ... [ ok ] * kdetoys-3.5.4.tar.bz2 RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] * kdetoys-3.5.4.tar.bz2 SHA1 ;-) ... [ ok ] * kdetoys-3.5.4.tar.bz2 SHA256 ;-) ... [ ok ] * kdetoys-3.5.4.tar.bz2 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking kdetoys-3.5.4.tar.bz2 ;-) ... [ ok ]>>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking kdetoys-3.5.4.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/kdetoys-3.5.4/work >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/kdetoys-3.5.4/work/kdetoys-3.5.4 ... * Forcing automake 1.9 when using autoconf 2.60 * Running elibtoolize in: kdetoys-3.5.4/admin * Applying portage-1.5.10.patch ... * Applying max_cmd_len-1.5.20.patch ... * Applying sed-1.5.6.patch ... * econf: updating kdetoys-3.5.4/admin/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating kdetoys-3.5.4/admin/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub /usr/bin/confcache --confcache-ignore /var/tmp/ccache:/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 --with-x --enable-mitshm --without-xinerama --with-qt-dir=/usr/qt/3 --enable-mt --with-qt-libraries=/usr/qt/3/lib --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-debug --without-debug --enable-final --with-arts --prefix=/usr/kde/3.5 --mandir=/usr/kde/3.5/share/man --infodir=/usr/kde/3.5/share/info --datadir=/usr/kde/3.5/share --sysconfdir=/usr/kde/3.5/etc --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 admin/config.sub failed !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /var/tmp/portage/kdetoys-3.5.4/work/kdetoys-3.5.4/config.log !!! ERROR: kde-base/kdetoys-3.5.4 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1543: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 938: Called src_compile ebuild.sh, line 1252: Called kde_src_compile kde.eclass, line 164: Called kde_src_compile 'all' kde.eclass, line 323: Called kde_src_compile 'myconf' 'configure' 'make' kde.eclass, line 305: Called econf '--with-x' '--enable-mitshm' '--without-xinerama' '--with-qt-dir=/usr/qt/3' '--enable-mt' '--with-qt-libraries=/usr/qt/3/lib' '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--disable-debug' '--without-debug' '--enable-final' '--with-arts' '--prefix=/usr/kde/3.5' '--mandir=/usr/kde/3.5/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/kde/3.5/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/kde/3.5/share' '--sysconfdir=/usr/kde/3.5/etc' ebuild.sh, line 539: Called die If I edit /etc/make.conf and remove "confcache" from FEATURES the emerge runs successfully. Conclusion: there is a conflict between the "configcache" FEATURE and =kde-base/kdetoys-3.5.4 at "config.sub". Thanks,
So disable confcache, it's package.masked for a reason.