The erroring out msg is: configure: error: libtool configure failed Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Unmask any recode ebuild 2. Attempt to Emerge it Actual Results: Download is successful, but fails during .configure with the above error (configure: error: libtool configure failed). Here is some more of the .configure: checking host system type... Invalid configuration `powerpc-apple-darwin': system `darwin' not recognized checking build system type... Invalid configuration `powerpc-apple-darwin': system `darwin' not recognized checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... no checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -p checking whether ln -s works... yes updating cache ./config.cache loading cache ./config.cache 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: app-text/recode-3.5 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 25, Exitcode 1 Expected Results: Successfully ran .configure for Gentoo MacOS Clean Gentoo MacOS install on 1.33 Powerbook. !!! Using `which gcc` to gcc locate version, this may break !!! DISTCC, installing gcc-config and setting your current gcc !!! profile will fix this Portage 2.0.51_pre13 (default-macos-10.3, gcc-3.3, unavailable, 7.4.0 Power Macintosh powerpc) ================================================================= System uname: 7.4.0 Power Macintosh powerpc cat: /etc/gentoo-release: No such file or directory distcc 2.0.1-zeroconf powerpc-apple-darwin7.0 (protocol 1) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.57 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.6.3 Binutils: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="macos" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-apple-darwin" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache cvs keepwork" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="macos X berkdb ldap mysql perl python ruby"
With the latest versions of portage (I'm using 51_rc6) the libtool error is fixed by the glibtool alias. The only thing left is that a charset.alias file collision blocks the install.
This bug is already fixed in portage.
Closing out bugs that've been resolved for a while now...