was emerging automake-1.7 as per bootstrap instructions and it errored saying autoconf-2.54 needed to be installed. i had followed every instruction and have had no problems so far Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge --oneshot --nodeps "=automake-1.7*" Actual Results: it stopped Expected Results: should of emerged automake-1.7.9 successfully junk@osiris:~/Gentoo/ > emerge info *** Deprecated use of action 'info', use '--info' instead Portage 2.1.20.5839 (default-darwin/macos/10.4/ppc, gcc-4.0.1, unavailable, 8.6.0 Power Macintosh) ================================================================= System uname: 8.6.0 Power Macintosh powerpc Unknown Host Operating System Timestamp of tree: Unknown distcc 2.16 powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0 (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc-macos ~ppc-macos" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc-apple-darwin8" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-apple-darwin8" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/Users/junk/Gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles" EPREFIX="/Users/junk/Gentoo" FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer nostrip sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-search_paths_first -L/Users/junk/Gentoo/usr/lib -L/Users/junk/Gentoo/lib" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/Users/junk/Gentoo/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="/Users/junk/Gentoo/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/Users/junk/Gentoo/usr/portage" SYNC="svn+http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/alt/trunk/prefix-overlay" USE="berkdb bzip2 emboss objc objc++ ppc ppc-macos python zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="Darwin" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="Darwin" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="Darwin" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY junk@203-97-123-216:~/Gentoo/ >
Created attachment 110036 [details] the build.log
Created attachment 110037 [details] the config.log
my mistake