bootstrapping of gentoo baselayout failed on an IBM Thinkpad (using liveCD 2004.0) with the following error message: Updating version.texi ../makeinfo/makeinfo -I . \ -o info.info `test-f 'info.texi' || echo './' `info.texi ../makeinfo/makeinfo -I. texinfo.txi make[2]: *** [texinfo.info] Illegal instruction make[2]: *** Deleting file `texinfo.info' make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/texinfo-4.6/work/texinfo-4.6/doc' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/texinfo-4.6/work/texinfo-4.6' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: sys-apps/texinfo-4.6 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 47, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) the processor type: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 11 model name : Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1200 MHz stepping : 4 the make.conf: CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 - pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" USE="f77 acpi alsa cdr dga divx4linux fbcon maildir png sse ssl mmx -gnome" MAKEOPTS="-j2" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/"
sorry..., it was not a fault with texinfo, but mine- i used the wrong CFLAG.