When I try to emerge gnome, it failes when it comes to nautilus (gnome-base/nautilus-2.8.2-r1). I've had this problem for a week, and I've recently done emerge sync && emerge -uD world successfully, but still the problem occurs. Here follows a paste of the interesting part of the output from emerge: autoheader: WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', `config.h.bot' autoheader: WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for `config.h.in' autoheader: WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged. autoheader: autoheader: WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and autoheader: WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a template without autoheader: WARNING: `acconfig.h': autoheader: autoheader: WARNING: AC_DEFINE([NEED_FUNC_MAIN], 1, autoheader: [Define if a function `main' is needed.]) autoheader: autoheader: WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the autoheader: WARNING: documentation. configure.in:46: version mismatch. This is Automake 1.9.4, configure.in:46: but the definition used by this AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE configure.in:46: comes from Automake 1.4-p6. You should recreate configure.in:46: aclocal.m4 with aclocal and run automake again. components/adapter/Makefile.am: required file `./depcomp' not found /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.9/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge sync && emerge -uD world 2. emerge nautilus Actual Results: 1. The system is successfully updated. 2. The build failes as described in the "Details" section. Expected Results: 2. Being built correctly. Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r4 i686 Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#2, Jan 28 2005, 00:46:20)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.9.4, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.21-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-mp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-mp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X Xaw3d alsa apache2 audiofile avi caps cdparanoia cdr cups dvd dvdr encode firebird flash gd gif gimp gnome gtk gtk2 jack jack-tmpfs java jpeg lua mikmod motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pdflib perl png portaudio python samba sdl spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex truetype unicode usb xml xml2 xmms xosd xprint xv" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
Sorry, this is really embarrasing. I solved the problem with some help from #gentoo at irc.freenode.org. However, this is what had to be done: 1. emerge /usr/portage/sys-devel/automake/automake-1.4_p6.ebuild 2. emerge automake-wrapper