Issuing "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~ppc" emerge kde" I got the following error. System configuration follows. It's the first time I'm trying to emerge kde on my gentoo system (on ppc). >>> md5 src_uri ;-) kdebase-3.1.5.tar.bz2 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking kdebase-3.1.5.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.1.5/work >>> Source unpacked. cp: cannot stat `Makefile': No such file or directory sed: can't read Makefile.orig: No such file or directory configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target configure: WARNING: invalid host type: No configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target configure: WARNING: invalid host type: set! configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target configure: WARNING: invalid host type: No configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target configure: WARNING: invalid host type: set! configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target configure: WARNING: invalid host type: No configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target configure: WARNING: invalid host type: set! checking build system type... Invalid configuration `No': machine `No' not recognized configure: error: /bin/sh admin/config.sub No failed died running ./configure, kde_src_compile:configure * * Your KDE program installation died while running the configure script * * * If the error was related to not finding the STL, you have a gcc error * that is easily fixed by re-emerging the latest version of gcc * See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=790048#790048 * or http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38634 * !!! ERROR: kde-base/kdebase-3.1.5 failed. !!! Function configure_die, Line 170, Exitcode 0 !!! (no error message) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Portage 2.0.49-r20 (default-ppc-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.21-ben2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.21-ben2 ppc 750FX Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -mcpu=750" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="rsync://ftp.belnet.be/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.linux.no/ http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib apache2 apm arts autofs berkdb bonobo cups directfb dv esd ethereal evo fam fbcon fbdev ffmpeg flash foomaticdb freetype gb gdbm gif gnome gnomedb gphoto2 gpm gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hbci imap imlib imlib2 ipv6 jabber java jikes jpeg junit kde lcd ldap libwww maildir mbox mcal mikmod mitshm mng mono motif mozilla mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg mpeg4 mpi msn mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl plotutils png ppc python qt quicktime radeon readline samba sdl slang slp spell ssl svg tcpd tetex tiff truetype usb wmf xml xml2 xmms xosd xv zlib"
you have a java misconfig - either reconfigure it or put "-java" in your use flags before emerging.