emerge --update <anything> tries to update libtool first. and fails on libtool emerge. Here is the output: ============================= root # emerge --update libtool Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-devel/libtool-1.4.3-r2 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) libtool-1.4.3.tar.gz >>> md5 src_uri ;-) libtool-1.3.5.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking libtool-1.4.3.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/libtool-1.4.3-r2/work >>> Unpacking libtool-1.3.5.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/libtool-1.4.3-r2/work configure.in:5: your implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE comes from an configure.in:5: old Automake version. You should recreate aclocal.m4 configure.in:5: with aclocal and run automake again. configure.in: installing `./missing' * Patching libtool-1.3.5 ... * Applying libtool-1.2f-cache.patch... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.3.5-nonneg.patch... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.3.5-mktemp.patch... [ ok ] configure.in:5: your implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE comes from an configure.in:5: old Automake version. You should recreate aclocal.m4 configure.in:5: with aclocal and run automake again. configure.in: installing `./missing' * Patching libtool-1.4.3 ... * Applying libtool-1.3.5-mktemp.patch... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.4-nonneg.patch... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.4.2-s390_x86_64.patch... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.4.2-relink-58664.patch... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.4.2-multilib.patch... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.4.2-demo.patch... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.4.3-lib64.patch... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.4.2-add-x11r6-lib-in-ignores-for-rpath.patch... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.4.2-fix-linkage-of-cxx-code-with-gcc.patch... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.4.2-archive-shared.patch... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.4.3-ltmain-SED.patch... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.4.2-portage.patch... 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GNU checking dependency style of gcc... none checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for BSD-compatible nm... nm checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all checking command to parse nm output... ok checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking dlfcn.h usability... yes checking dlfcn.h presence... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... no checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip... strip checking for objdir... .libs checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes checking whether the linker (/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no creating libtool configure: creating ./config.status !!! ERROR: sys-devel/libtool-1.4.3-r2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 143, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) ============================= Here is "emerge --info" ============================= root # emerge --info Portage 2.0.49-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r5) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /opt/tomcat/conf /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="oss apm crypt libg++ mikmod ncurses nls quicktime gdbm berkdb slang readline tetex svga tcltk guile gpm libwww python esd motif tcpd pam ssl xinetd java qt alsa kde cdr dvdr dvd mozilla pda usb cups -gnome v4l v4l2 3dnow sse mmx X gtk gtk2 jpeg gif opengl oggvorbis xmms mpeg nvidia xv avi png tiff sdl xml xml2 perl truetype aalib encode directfb fbcon arts dga doc dvb foomaticdb gphoto2 gstreamer imlib joystick junit mad mysql pdflib scanner spell videos wmf zlib x86" ============================= I was not able to do a search, so, don't know if the bug has already been filed. Any help / info / pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Ajay Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
ok... sorry about that. Its fixed. I updated to the latest versions of automake and autoconf, which seems to have fixed the problem. Maybe it would be wise to have automake and autoconf versions depend on libtool... Thanks Ajay
