On a fresh install, right after the emerge --sync told me a newer portage was available, I tried to build it with emerge portage. This appearently requires sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2, which fails to build. Well, not really fails. It refuses to build libsandbox.a Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge sandbox Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="pentium4" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="pentium4" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ " MAKEOPTS="-j3" 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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl berkdb cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 isdnlog midi mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl tcpd unicode x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint i128 i740 i810 imstt mach64 mga neomagic nsc nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Created attachment 150145 [details] build.log
You forgot to attach /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2/work/build-default-pentium4/config.log
Created attachment 150173 [details] config.log
Ah, now I see. CBUILD="pentium4" CHOST="pentium4" Please do reset these to their original values. If you don't know what a variable does, you don't need to change it...
> configure:21032: error: dont be a Kumba, building a libsandbox.a is stupid That's a cute one from vapier. I forget the history on it, though. Something dumb I probably did once :P FYI Martin, you set those two flags wrong to begin with, so this error comes as no surprise. Take a peek at the install guide for the proper format for these variable, which is usually the "long" format of the CHOST (not the shortened form you'll find in other distros). And you only need to set CHOST, really. CBUILD (I don't even know if that's valid?) is probably a cross-target variable, and doesn't need to be set.
Yeah, misread something in the example file, I guess. Though I don't know what it was, looking there again. Sorry for the work I caused.
