I ran into this earlier today, emerging the berkdb component of sys-libs/pam-0.77. I added it as an attachment to bug 41748. I avoided that problem by setting USE=-berkdb and reemerging. Now, I've run into the same error with sys-apps/coreutils-5.0.91-r4. Here is an excerpt of the output with coreutils (after the autoconf 'checking for ...' lines and the 'creating xxx/Makefile' lines): config.status: creating tests/wc/Makefile config.status: creating config.h config.status: linking ./lib/ftw_.h to lib/ftw.h config.status: executing depfiles commands config.status: executing default-1 commands config.status: creating po/POTFILES config.status: creating po/Makefile cd . && /bin/sh /var/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.0.91-r4/work/coreutils-5.0.91/config/missing --run autoheader /usr/bin/autoheader-2.58: unrecognized option `--language=autoconf' Try `/usr/bin/autoheader-2.58 --help' for more information. autoheader-2.58: /usr/bin/autoheader-2.58 failed with exit status: 1 make: *** [config.hin] Error 1 !!! ERROR: sys-apps/coreutils-5.0.91-r4 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 130, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) It appears that 'missing' is calling autoheader with an incorrect argument. I don't know enough about the GNU autoX to figure it out. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. # emerge sys-apps/coreutils-5.0.91-r4 Actual Results: I got the above error message. Expected Results: It should have emerged cleanly. I've been trying to do 'emerge system', as part of a gentoo install, but I've been blocked by these bugs. The environment is the Gentoo 1.4 LiveCD, chrooted into my environment.
Sorry for cluttering bugzilla. Had I 'emerge sync'ed a few hours later, I would have caught the fixed autoconf ebuild. I guess I should also check the forums, eh?
