What I was doing: alteran ~ # emerge x11-libs/libXext -qav [ebuild N ] x11-misc/util-macros-1.1.5 [ebuild N ] x11-proto/xproto-7.0.10 [ebuild N ] x11-proto/xextproto-7.0.2 [ebuild N ] x11-proto/kbproto-1.0.3 [ebuild N ] x11-proto/xf86bigfontproto-1.1.2 [ebuild N ] x11-proto/inputproto-1.4.2.1 [ebuild N ] x11-libs/xtrans-1.0.4 USE="-debug" [ebuild N ] x11-proto/bigreqsproto-1.0.2 [ebuild N ] x11-proto/xcmiscproto-1.1.2 [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libXau-1.0.3 USE="-debug" [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libXdmcp-1.0.2 USE="-debug" [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libX11-1.1.4 USE="ipv6 -debug -xcb" [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libXext-1.0.3 USE="-debug" Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] yes >>> Verifying ebuild Manifests... >>> starting parallel fetching pid 19976 >>> Emerging (1 of 13) x11-misc/util-macros-1.1.5 to / * Applying 1.1.1-driver-man-suffix.patch ... [ ok ] make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. * * ERROR: x11-misc/util-macros-1.1.5 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2983: Called x-modular_src_compile * environment, line 3722: Called x-modular_src_make * environment, line 3758: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die "emake failed" * The die message: * emake failed * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/x11-misc:util-macros-1.1.5:20080626-212109.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/dev/shm/portage/x11-misc/util-macros-1.1.5/temp/environment'. * * Messages for package x11-misc/util-macros-1.1.5: * * ERROR: x11-misc/util-macros-1.1.5 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2983: Called x-modular_src_compile * environment, line 3722: Called x-modular_src_make * environment, line 3758: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die "emake failed" * The die message: * emake failed * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/x11-misc:util-macros-1.1.5:20080626-212109.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/dev/shm/portage/x11-misc/util-macros-1.1.5/temp/environment'. * With what environment: alteran ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 x86_64 Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 885 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:03:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=opteron -O3 -pipe -ftracer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -mfpmath=sse -ftree-vectorize -floop-optimize2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=opteron -O3 -pipe -ftracer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -mfpmath=sse -ftree-vectorize -floop-optimize2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="buildpkg ccache distcc distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://ftp.romnet.org/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LINGUAS="fr en pt es" MAKEOPTS="-j20" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/dev/shm/" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl amd64 berkdb blas bzip2 cli colordiff cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 isdnlog midi mmx mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd unicode xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci 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" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr en pt es" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="none r128" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY And the contents of ${WORKDIR}: alteran ~ # ll /dev/shm/portage/x11-misc/util-macros-1.1.5/work/util-macros-1.1.5/ total 232K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21K 2006-12-23 23:17 aclocal.m4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.9K 2006-12-23 23:17 ChangeLog -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 89K 2006-12-23 23:17 configure -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.0K 2006-12-23 23:17 configure.ac -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.6K 2006-08-27 05:42 COPYING -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9.1K 2006-08-27 05:46 install-sh -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.5K 2006-12-06 12:02 Makefile.am -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17K 2006-12-23 23:17 Makefile.in -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11K 2006-08-27 05:46 missing -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 685 2006-08-27 05:42 README -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14K 2006-12-23 23:17 xorg-macros.m4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14K 2008-06-26 17:25 xorg-macros.m4.in -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.5K 2006-12-23 23:12 xorgversion.m4 Some interesting notes: alteran ~ # cd /dev/shm/portage/x11-misc/util-macros-1.1.5/work/util-macros-1.1.5/ alteran util-macros-1.1.5 # ./configure -bash: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied alteran util-macros-1.1.5 # which bash /bin/bash alteran util-macros-1.1.5 # which sh /bin/sh alteran util-macros-1.1.5 # ll /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-06-26 05:18 /bin/sh -> bash This is all I have in my world starting from a Stage2-2008_beta2: alteran util-macros-1.1.5 # cat /var/lib/portage/world app-admin/mcelog app-admin/syslog-ng app-editors/vim app-misc/screen app-portage/conf-update app-portage/eix app-portage/gentoolkit app-portage/ufed net-analyzer/traceroute net-dns/host net-fs/nfs-utils net-misc/dhcpcd net-misc/ntp sys-apps/dstat sys-apps/lshw sys-apps/pciutils sys-fs/reiserfsprogs sys-process/numactl sys-process/vixie-cron ...so this is essentially a clean system I just built yesterday... nothing special nor extravagant.
When using PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/dev/shm/" <<>> /dev/shm/ has to be mounted without the "noexec" option (edit fstab). Guess the default changed over time since my "old" machine never had this problem... Sorry about the false hit.
