When trying to emerge couchdb-1.6.1 when erlang-18.0 is installed emerge fails in configure phase: [snip] checking Erlang version compatibility... detected Erlang version: 7.0.0...configure: error: The installed Erlang version must be >= R14B (erts-5.8.1) and =< 17 (erts-6.0) major_version does not match [/snip] The issue is also reported and fixed upstream in 1.6.x branch: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/325 https://github.com/apache/couchdb/commit/95cb436be30305efa091809813b64ef31af968c8.patch
Can you attach the full build.log / config.log. and "emerge --info couchdb" too
No need to attach more info, this is good enough for me. :)
Fixed in 1.6.1-r1: commit f1e3aa13062e9b59ef383e8078c7e4f61f140604 Author: Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@gentoo.org> Date: Thu Sep 24 08:09:53 2015 +0200 dev-db/couchdb: allow erlang-18 (fixes bug 554210) Package-Manager: portage-2.2.20.1