I've installed Gentoo on my desktop, and had a pretty good experience. I then tried installing onto my laptop, and emacs failed to build: ... Loading loadup (source)... Using load-path (/var/tmp/portage/emacs-21.2/work/emacs-21.2/lisp) Loading byte-run... Loading subr... Loading version.el (source)... Loading widget... Loading custom... Loading emacs-lisp/backquote... Loading map-ynp... Loading env... Loading cus-start (source)... Loading international/mule... Loading international/mule-conf.el (source)... Loading format... Loading bindings... Loading simple... Loading files... Lists of integers (garbage collection statistics) are normal output while building Emacs; they do not indicate a problem. ((7016 . 6021) (3781 . 0) (486 . 3) 11851 21356 (3 . 0) (16 . 0) (612 . 1782)) Loading loaddefs.el (source)... Maximum buffer size exceeded make[1]: *** [emacs] Error 255 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/emacs-21.2/work/emacs-21.2/src' make: *** [src] Error 2 !!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully. !!! Function src_compile, Line 53, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) !!! emerge aborting on /usr/portage/app-editors/emacs/emacs-21.2.ebuild .
hi. could you please post the compiler version, and CFLAGS you are using?
closing out of lack of further information
