gateway ~ # emerge -av eix These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-portage/eix-0.7.5 USE="-sqlite" 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] >>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-portage/eix-0.7.5 to / * eix-0.7.5.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-) ... [ ok ] * eix-0.7.5.tar.bz2 RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] * eix-0.7.5.tar.bz2 SHA1 ;-) ... [ ok ] * eix-0.7.5.tar.bz2 SHA256 ;-) ... [ ok ] * eix-0.7.5.tar.bz2 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking eix-0.7.5.tar.bz2 ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking eix-0.7.5.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/eix-0.7.5/work >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/eix-0.7.5/work/eix-0.7.5 ... * econf: updating eix-0.7.5/config/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating eix-0.7.5/config/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub /usr/bin/confcache --confcache-ignore /var/tmp/portage/.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 --without-sqlite --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/config.sub failed !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /var/tmp/portage/eix-0.7.5/work/eix-0.7.5/config.log !!! ERROR: app-portage/eix-0.7.5 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 937: Called src_compile eix-0.7.5.ebuild, line 18: Called econf '--without-sqlite' ebuild.sh, line 540: Called die !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. I have attached the log-file for the build to this bug. My emerge --info is below gateway ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.2_pre2-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:50:02 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] 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: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig confcache distcc distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ " MAKEOPTS="-j4" 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 alsa apache2 berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt dlloader dri dvd elibc_glibc fortran gd gdbm gpm iconv input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog kernel_linux libg++ mp3 mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly oss pam pcre perl postgres ppds pppd python readline reflection session spl sqlite sqlite3 ssl tcpd tk truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_i810 xml xorg zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Many thanks Kevin Fullerton
Created attachment 98587 [details] Log file from the build of eix
confcache is package.masked for a reason, disable it.
