examples: x11-libs/fltk-2.0_pre6671 am-wrapper: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.10 is missing or not executable. Please try emerging the correct version of automake. app-text/recode-3.6_p15-r1 am-wrapper: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.10 is missing or not executable. Please try emerging the correct version of automake. and others, mysql, ogre, etc pp. downgrading to 1.10.2 fixes the problem Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.update to automake 1.0b 2.? 3. a lot of packages fail to configure creating a symlink in /usr/bin helps to workaround. emerge --info WARNING: One or more repositories have missing repo_name entries: /usr/local/portage/profiles/repo_name NOTE: Each repo_name entry should be a plain text file containing a unique name for the repository on the first line. Portage 2.2_rc30 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.28.7r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28.7r4-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_6000+-with-gentoo-2.0.0 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p17 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2, 2.6.1-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.3-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.9 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3 -O2 -msse3 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.2/env /usr/kde/4.2/share/config /usr/kde/4.2/shutdown /usr/kde/4.3/env /usr/kde/4.3/share/config /usr/kde/4.3/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3 -O2 -msse3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg candy ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="de_DE@euro" LC_ALL="de_DE@euro" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/games /usr/local/portage/layman/qting-edge /usr/local/portage/layman/kde-testing /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="32bit 3dnow 3dnowext 7zip S3TC X Xaw3d a52 aac acpi addbookmarks aften aiglx aim aio akode alias alsa altenburgcards amarok amarok2 amd64 amr amrnb amrwb analogtv aotuv aqua_theme archive athena audio audiofile autoreplace avahi bash-completion berkdb binary-drivers bittorrent-external bluetooth boost branding bzip2 cairo captury cdaudio cdda cddb cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cdrom cdsound cegui chm clamav cli clucene connectionstatus consolekit contactnotes cracklib crypt css cups curl dbus dhcp divx dnd double-precision downloadorder dpms dragonplayer dri dts dv dvb dvbplayer dvbsetup dvd dvdr dvdread editor eds emboss emerald emovix encode evo exif exiv2 expat extra-cardsets fame fasttrack fat ffmpeg fftw file firefox fits flac fontconfig foomaticdb fortran ftp gadu gd gdbm geoip gif gimp glibc-omitfp glitz glut glx gnokii gnutella google-gadgets gpgme gpm grub hal hddtemp highlight history icons iconv icq icu id3 id3tag ieee1394 imagemagick inotify ipv6 irc irmc irrlicht isdnlog jabber java java6 javascript jce jingle joystick jpeg jpeg2k kate kcal kde kde4 kdecards kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kdepim kdeprefix kdm kexi kipi lame lapack lcms lesstif libnotify libsamplerate libssh2 libwww lirc lm_sensors logitech-mouse logviewer lzo mad magic mailbox maildir maps matroska mbox mdnsresponder-compat metric midi mikmod mime mixer mjpeg mmap mmx mmxext mng monolithic mp2 mp3 mp4 mpeg mpeg2 mplayer msn mtp mudflap mule multilib musepack music nano-syntax ncurses neXt nepomuk net network newspr ngui nls no-old-linux nocd nowin nowlistening npp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs obex offensive ogg ogg123 ogm openexr opengl openmp oscar otr oxygen pam paste64 pch pcre pda pdf perl physfs pixmaps plasma player plugins png pnm posix ppds pppd ps python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rar readline recode reflection reiser4 reiserfs remix resolvconf rogue rtc samba sametime sasl scanner scenarios schedule scsi sdl sdl-image sdl-sound sdlaudio search semantic-desktop server session slp smp sms sndfile sockets sound sounds spell spl sqlite sqlite3 srt sse sse-filters sse2 sse3 ssh ssl startup-notification statistics stats stroke subp subtitles svg sysfs sysvipc szip tcpd texteffect textures tga theora threads threadsafe tiff timidity tk tomsfastmath toolbar tools transcode translator truetype tv tv_check tv_combiner tv_pick_cgi tvtime unicode unzip usb userlocales utempter v4l v4l2 vcd videos visualization vorbis webdav webkit webpresence wifi wireshark wlm wmf wmp wxwindows x264 xanim xcb xcomposite xemacs xext xface xft xine xml xorg xosd xpm xrandr xrender xscreensaver xskatcards xulrunner xv xvid xvmc yahoo yiff yv12 zeroconf zip zlib zsh-completion zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul 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" LINGUAS="de" LIRC_DEVICES="devinput" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa v4l fglrx radeon radeonhd" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I'd say this is rather a problem with automake-wrapper. Adjusting summary accordingly.
manually change the wrapper yourself vers="1.10b 1.9 1.8 1.7 1.6 1.5 1.4"