In the net-ftp package, the newly uploaded ftp-0.17-r1.ebuild seems to be missing the "./configure" file (or at least the error message prompts this, I think configure is there anyway). So the package will fail an emerge. I experienced this while I was doing a fresh install of Gentoo on my box. It failed at 'emerge system', which is quite annoying, because I didn't know what was going on. I never had an error before in any install of Gentoo ;) Here's a modified ebuild that seemed to work, as found on [ http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=8367 ]: ###################### A=netkit-${P}.tar.gz S=${WORKDIR}/netkit-${P} DESCRIPTION="Standard Linux FTP Client" SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/Networking/netkit/${A}" DEPEND="virtual/glibc >=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2" src_compile() { try ./configure --prefix=/usr cp MCONFIG MCONFIG.orig sed -e "s/-pipe -O2/${CFLAGS}/" MCONFIG.orig > MCONFIG try make } src_install() { into /usr dobin ftp/ftp doman ftp/ftp.1 ftp/netrc.5 dodoc ChangeLog README BUGS } ######################
my typo sorry about that.
