While attempting to emerge 'ogre' (on powerpc), it failed. I looked through the messages, and noticed that the bootstrap command failed, but the emerge had moved passed it, and thus the configure script was not recreated as it should have. On non-x86 & non-amd platforms, a patch (*-nocg.patch) is executed. The patch fails to [properly?] alter the 'autom4te.cache' folder. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. get a non-x86 and non-amd machine 2. {presumption; not sure what version starts the problem} emerge autoconf-2.59-r{3,4} 3. emerge ogre Actual Results: ogre fails to build. specifically, ./configure errors out, with a message about some cg function. Expected Results: ogre should emerge. I tried manually running ./bootstrap inside /var/tmp/..../work/ogrenew. It produced a cryptic message, which i looked up on google. A message board suggested rm'ing the autotools cache dir (autom4te.cache). I tried that and confirmed that it works. Furthermore, I made some changes to the ogre ebuild file (in my /usr/portage/dev-games/ogre directory). Here is my altered 'src_unpack()' function, from ogre-0.14.0.ebuild: src_unpack() { unpack ${A} cd ${S} case "${ARCH}" in x86 | amd64) ;; *) einfo "Removing nVidia Cg dependency on this arch" epatch "${FILESDIR}/${PV}-nocg.patch" rm -rf ${S}/autom4te.cache ./bootstrap || die ;; esac } I added the 'rm -rf ${S}/autom4te.cache' line, and appended '|| die' to the ./bootstrap line. The ebuild works now. Here's my emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-ppc-2004.2, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7-gentoo-r8) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r8 ppc 740/750 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13p1 distcc 2.16 powerpc-unknown-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="ppc ~ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="aalib arts berkdb cdr dvd esd gcj gdbm gif gnome-libs gpm gtk guile imlib java javadoc javascript jpeg ldap libww w motif mozilla mysql nls oggvorbis opengl pam perl png ppc ppds python qt readline ruby sdl slang ssl tcltk tcpd true type usb"
Thnxs. Fixed in cvs.
