The ebuild for ntp 4.2.0 fails consistently with the following message. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge ntp 2. 3. Actual Results: /usr/bin/autoheader-2.59: unrecognized option `--language=autoconf' Try `/usr/bin/autoheader-2.59 --help' for more information. autoheader-2.59: /usr/bin/autoheader-2.59 failed with exit status: 1 make: *** [config.h.in] Error 1 !!! ERROR: net-misc/ntp-4.2.0 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 79, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Expected Results: Successful emerge moe root # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0,2.2.5-r4, 2.6.3-rc3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.3-rc3 i686 AMD Duron(tm) processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -mcpu=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -mcpu=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" 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="3dnow 3dnowex X aalib alsa apache2 apm avantgo avi berkdb cdr crypt cups curl doc dvd emacs encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gimpprint gpg gpgme gphoto2 gpm gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imap imlib java jpeg jpilot libg++ libwww mad mbox mikmod motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg mpeg4 ncurses nptl ofx ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pda pdflib perl png postgres ppds python quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang sox speedo spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff transcode truetype type1 usb v4l wmf x86 xemacs xface xfs xine xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib" moe root # autoconf --version Autoconf version 2.13 moe root # automake --version automake (GNU automake) 1.8.2 Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>. Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. moe root # m4 --version GNU m4 1.4
try upgrading your autoconf, -r1 is pretty broken afaik
Ok. That appears to have worked.