When emergin gtkspell--2.0.4-r1 on ppc I get [...] ../libtool: line 1: s%^.*/%%: No such file or directory ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: s%^.*/%%: No such file or directory ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found : compile: cannot determine name of library object from `' make[2]: *** [gtkspell.lo] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found [...] : compile: cannot determine name of library object from `' make[2]: *** [deprecated.lo] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gtkspell-2.0.4-r1/work/gtkspell-2.0.4/gtkspell' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gtkspell-2.0.4-r1/work/gtkspell-2.0.4' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 !!! ERROR: app-text/gtkspell-2.0.4-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 45, Exitcode 2 !!! compile failure Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge gtkspell--2.0.4-r1 2. 3. Actual Results: compilation fails Portage 2.0.49-r18 (default-ppc-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.21-ppc-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.21-ppc-r2 ppc Gentoo Base System version 1.4.2.9 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc ~ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -mcpu=750" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb:/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/te xmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -mcpu=750" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.die.unipd.it/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo-sources/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirro r/gentoo/ http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.cnlab- switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/Gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa berkdb crypt cups dvd esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gnome-libs gpm g tk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib java jpeg libwww maildir mitshm motif mozilla ncurse s nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam perl png ppc python qt readline samba sdl slang s pell ssl tcpd tetex truetype xface xv"
which version of libtool ?
The version of libtool ebuild is 1.4.1-r10
upgrade your libtool and if it still doesnt work give us the head of the output rather than the middle / tail of it
Upgrading to libtool-1.4.3-r3 fixed the problem
