During configure I get: checking whether the x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ linker (/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so (cached) (cached) checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/db-4.5.20_p2-r1/work/db-4.5.20/build_unix/../dist/configure: line 22051: LT_OUTPUT: command not found Portage 2.1.6.11 (arch/amd64, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1, 2.6.24.7-default x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.24.7-default-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q6600_@_2.40GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 06 May 2009 11:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p48-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r15, 2.5.2-r8 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.2.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.3.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 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 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/spool/torque" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona" DISTDIR="/nfslarge/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/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="/nfslarge/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/nfslarge/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /nfslarge/usr/portage/local" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X amd64 berkdb bzip2 crypt dri gdbm hal java jce kerberos laptop mmx mpi mpich2 multilib ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin pam python readline sse sse2 ssl syslog tcpd unicode xorg zlib" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Confirmed on amd64. Note that ./configure does not fail.
There is even mor eon ~amd64: >>> Emerging (7 of 10) sys-libs/db-4.5.20_p2-r1 * db-4.5.20.tar.gz RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * patch.4.5.20.1 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * patch.4.5.20.2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * Using: icedtea6-bin >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking db-4.5.20.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/db-4.5.20_p2-r1/work * Applying patch.4.5.20.1 ... [ ok ] * Applying patch.4.5.20.2 ... [ ok ] * Applying db-4.5-libtool.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying db-4.3-jni-check-prefix-first.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying db-4.3-listen-to-java-options.patch ... [ ok ] * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/db-4.5.20_p2-r1/work/db-4.5.20/dist' ... * Running aclocal -I aclocal -I aclocal_java ... [ ok ] * Running libtoolize --copy --force --install ... [ ok ] * Running aclocal -I aclocal -I aclocal_java ... [ ok ] * Running autoconf ... [ ok ] * Running autoheader ... [ !! ] * Running elibtoolize in: db-4.5.20/dist * Applying portage-2.2.patch ... * Applying sed-1.5.6.patch ... * Applying as-needed-2.2.6.patch ... >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/db-4.5.20_p2-r1/work >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/db-4.5.20_p2-r1/work/db-4.5.20/build_unix ... * econf: updating db-4.5.20/dist/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating db-4.5.20/dist/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/db-4.5.20_p2-r1/work/db-4.5.20/build_unix/../dist/configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-compat185 --enable-o_direct --without-uniquename --enable-rpc --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --with-mutex=x86/gcc-assembly --enable-cxx --disable-tcl --enable-java --with-java-prefix=/opt/icedtea6-bin-1.6.1 --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --disable-test -with-javac-flags=-source 1.4 -target 1.4 checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [cut] checking if x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc supports -c -o file.o... rm: cannot remove `conftest*': No such file or directory yes checking if x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc linker (/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... rm: cannot remove `conftest*': No such file or directory no checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking for ld used by x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++... /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64 checking if the linker (/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) is GNU ld... yes checking whether the x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ linker (/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ static flag -static works... yes checking if x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ supports -c -o file.o... rm: cannot remove `conftest*': No such file or directory yes checking if x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes [cut] # emerge --info Portage 2.1.7.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r3, 2.6.29.4-default x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.29.4-default-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9650_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r3, 2.6.4, 3.1.1-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/spool/torque" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/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="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X amd64 berkdb bzip2 cracklib crypt dri fortran gdbm hal iconv java jce jpeg jpg laptop mmx modules mpi mpich2 multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin pam pcre perl png python readline sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs syslog 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 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" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Something was borked with your libtool. Reinstall your libtool and see if you can still reproduce it. Here is where the definition should come from: /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4:AC_DEFUN([LT_OUTPUT],
