Strangely, this very same ebuild works fine on another system I have. Let me know what tests you'd like me to run. Regards, Tom apps_tpa root # emerge --oneshot media-libs/id3lib Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) media-libs/id3lib-3.8.3-r2 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) id3lib-3.8.3.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking id3lib-3.8.3.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/id3lib-3.8.3-r2/work libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' is serial 40, less than 46 in `aclocal.m4' To remain compatible, you should update your `aclocal.m4' by running aclocal. >>> Source unpacked. configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used. checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip... no checking for strip... strip checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for strerror in -lcposix... no checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... no checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B checking whether ln -s works... yes loading cache /dev/null within ltconfig ltconfig: you must specify a host type if you use `--no-verify' Try `ltconfig --help' for more information. configure: error: libtool configure failed !!! ERROR: media-libs/id3lib-3.8.3-r2 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 362, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed apps_tpa root # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r0, 2.6.7-gentoo-r6) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.5.1 distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -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/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/home/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb crypt cups dga encode esd flash foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gnome gtk gtk2 imlib innodb java jpeg libg++ libwww live lmcs mad maildir mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl pic plotutils png python qt quicktime readline ruby ruby18 samba sdl slang slp spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype usb x86 xc xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
I have no clue what's going on here... can youu please attatch /var/tmp/portage/id3lib-3.8.3-r2/work/id3lib-3.8.3/config.log
Created attachment 36263 [details] /var/tmp/portage/id3lib-3.8.3-r2/work/id3lib-3.8.3/config.log
hmm... this is just a shot in the dark... but could youu try re-emerging libtool?
Wow, magic. That fixed it. It's some funky voodoo, man. Cheers! Tom
weird ... well... glad it helped...