>>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking xvattr-1.3.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/xvattr-1.3-r1/work >>> Unpacking xvattr-1.3-nogtk.patch.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/xvattr-1.3-r1/work * Applying xvattr-1.3-nogtk.patch.bz2 ... [ ok ] * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/xvattr-1.3-r1/work/xvattr-1.3' ... * Requested autoconf 2.5 * Using autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59 * Using autoheader (GNU Autoconf) 2.59 * Requested automake 1.9 * Using automake (GNU automake) 1.9.6 * Using aclocal (GNU automake) 1.9.6 * Running aclocal -I /var/tmp/portage/xvattr-1.3-r1/work/xvattr-1.3/m4 [ ok ] * Running autoconf ... [ !! ] * Failed Running autoconf ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/xvattr-1.3-r1/temp/autoconf-25120.out !!! ERROR: media-video/xvattr-1.3-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_unpack ebuild.sh, line 708: Called src_unpack xvattr-1.3-r1.ebuild, line 38: Called eautoreconf autotools.eclass, line 85: Called eautoconf autotools.eclass, line 158: Called autotools_run_tool 'autoconf' autotools.eclass, line 240: Called die !!! Failed Running autoconf ! !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. contents of autoconf-25120.out: ***** autoconf ***** configure.in:10: error: do not use LIBOBJS directly, use AC_LIBOBJ (see section `AC_LIBOBJ vs LIBOBJS' If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. emerge --info: Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.15-suspend2-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-suspend2-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1000MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 06:30:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] 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-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/NX/etc /usr/NX/home /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/" LINGUAS="" MAKEOPTS="-j2" 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/xgl-overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aiglx alsa apache2 apm asf berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts cdr cli commercial cracklib crypt cups divx4linux dlloader dri dts dvd elibc_glibc emacs emboss encode firefox foomaticdb fortran gcj gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics isdnlog jpeg kernel_linux libg++ libwww lirc mad mikmod mmx mmxext motif mp3 mpeg ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python quicktime readline real reflection sdl session spell spl sse ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU userlocales video_cards_nvidia vorbis win32codecs xml xorg xv xvid xvmc zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I can reproduce the error using old versions autoconf-wrapper-3.2 and autoconf-2.59-r7. There are newer stable versions with which it will work. You should keep your system up to date. at least do this for installing xvattr: emerge -u --deep xvattr
