As per reported in bug# 228265, libprelude needs to be patched with #define lt_preloaded_symbols lt__PROGRAM__LTX_preloaded_symbols and then elibtoolize and eautoreconf to fix prelude-manager from segfaulting in libtool-2.2.4. Upstream is aware of the issue and awaiting updated tarball release with libtool2 fixes, See URL for more info from upstream. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge libprelude prelude-manager 2. /usr/bin/prelude-manager --debug -1 stderr 3. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228265 for the root of this problem.
There is a newer version of libprelude in the tree which fixes this.