Because now, portage reports a file collision with autoconf. $ sudo ebuild /var/portage/sys-libs/newlib/newlib-20061203.ebuild qmerge * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking newlib-20061203.tar.bz2 ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking 2 files for package collisions existing file /usr/share/info/standards.info.gz is not owned by this package * spent 0.0296750068665 seconds checking for file collisions * This package is blocked because it wants to overwrite * files belonging to other packages (see messages above). * If you have no clue what this is all about report it * as a bug for this package on http://bugs.gentoo.org package sys-libs/newlib-20061203 NOT merged Searching all installed packages for file collisions... Press Ctrl-C to Stop * sys-devel/autoconf-2.61: '/usr/share/info/standards.info.gz' (I know newlib isn't supposed to work on x86... I actually ran into this with an unofficial cross-compiled newlib; the testing on x86 was merely to see if the problem was a generic one.) $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.2_rc2-r5 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:20:01 +0000 dev-lang/python: 2.5-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.19 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" 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/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/var/dist" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y" FEATURES="assume-digests autoconfig autopatch collision-protect cvs distlocks metadata-transfer notitles sandbox sfperms sign strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo " LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Xlinker --as-needed" LINGUAS="en_GB en" PKGDIR="/var/pkg" 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="/var/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/cvs/gentoo-x86 /etc/portage/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X acl akode alsa bidi bindist bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cjk cli cracklib cups dlloader dri dvd dvdread elibc_glibc flac gif iconv idn immqt input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_wacom ipv6 isdnlog jit jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kernel_linux lesstif libg++ linguas_en linguas_en_GB mbox mmx mmxext mplayer mudflap ncurses nls nntp nocxx nptl nptlonly objc objc++ objc-gc offensive ogg opengl pango pascal pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd qt3 readline reflection rtc scim sdl session source spell spl ssl symlink truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU utempter video_cards_radeon vim-with-x vorbis wacom win32codecs xcomposite xim xorg xv xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
fixed, thank you?
