# emerge m4 Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-devel/m4-1.4.2 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) m4-1.4.2.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking m4-1.4.2.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/m4-1.4.2/work >>> Source unpacked. ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --enable-changeword 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 gawk... gawk checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-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 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib checking how to run the C preprocessor... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for AIX... no checking for library containing strerror... none required checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking minix/config.h usability... no checking minix/config.h presence... no checking for minix/config.h... no checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) checking for function prototypes... yes checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking limits.h usability... yes checking limits.h presence... yes checking for limits.h... yes checking for memory.h... (cached) yes checking siginfo.h usability... no checking siginfo.h presence... no checking for siginfo.h... no checking for string.h... (cached) yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes checking return type of signal handlers... void checking for size_t... yes checking for mkstemp... yes checking for sigaction... yes checking for sigaltstack... yes checking for sigstack... yes checking for sigvec... yes checking for strerror... yes checking for tmpfile... yes checking for working alloca.h... yes checking for alloca... yes checking for vprintf... yes checking for _doprnt... no checking for strtol... yes checking ecvt declaration... yes checking if stack overflow is detectable... yes checking if changeword is wanted... yes checking if malloc debugging is wanted... no configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating doc/Makefile config.status: creating lib/Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating checks/Makefile config.status: creating examples/Makefile config.status: creating config.h config.status: executing default commands make: invalid option -- a make: invalid option -- c make: invalid option -- = make: invalid option -- a Usage: make [options] [target] ... Options: -b, -m Ignored for compatibility. -B, --always-make Unconditionally make all targets. -C DIRECTORY, --directory=DIRECTORY Change to DIRECTORY before doing anything. -d Print lots of debugging information. --debug[=FLAGS] Print various types of debugging information. -e, --environment-overrides Environment variables override makefiles.
# emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r12 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r1 x86_64 Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Dec 15 2004, 09:10:51)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r5, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r1, 1.8.5-r2, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.9.3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.2-r7 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /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="-pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointers -funroll-loops -j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 apm berkdb bitmap-fonts calendar cdr crypt cups dga dio directfb doc dvd emacs emacs-w3 emul-linux-x86 encode esd ethreal f77 fam fbcon flash font-server fortran ftp gif gnome gnustep gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 icq imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jikes jp2 jpeg kde ldap libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mbox mng mozilla mpeg msn multilib ncurses nls offensive oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam perl pic plotutils png prelude python qt quicktime readline scanner sdl snmp ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales videos wxwindows xine xml2 xmms xpm xrandr xv xvid yahoo zlib" Unset: LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Changing "emake" to "make" in the ebuild for sys-devel/m4-1.4.2 fixes this problem.
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