The emerge fails with an error about autoconf. Installed versions are: # qpkg -I -i autoconf sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-2-r1 * wrapper for autoconf to manage multiple autoconf versions [ http://www.gentoo.org/ ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r6 * Used to create autoconfiguration files [ http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.13 * Used to create autoconfiguration files [ http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html ] Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge games-arcade/pachi 2. or 3. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge games-arcade/pachi Actual Results: Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) games-arcade/pachi-1.0 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) pachi-1.0.tar.bz2 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking pachi-1.0.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/pachi-1.0/work * Applying 1.0-autotools.patch ... [ ok ] automake: configure.in: installing `./config.guess' automake: configure.in: installing `./config.sub' FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.54 or higher is required for this script >>> Source unpacked. * Using GNU config files from /usr/share/libtool * Updating config.sub [ ok ] * Updating config.guess [ ok ] ./configure --prefix=/usr/games --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share/games --sysconfdir=/etc/games --localstatedir=/var/games creating cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for working aclocal-1.4... found checking for working autoconf... found checking for working automake-1.4... found checking for working autoheader... found checking for working makeinfo... found checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -frerun-loop-opt -frerun-cse-after-loop -fexpensive-optimizations -falign-functions=4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse,387 -march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -frerun-loop-opt -frerun-cse-after-loop -fexpensive-optimizations -falign-functions=4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse,387 -march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for c++... c++ checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -frerun-loop-opt -frerun-cse-after-loop -fexpensive-optimizations -falign-functions=4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse,387 -march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 ) works... yes checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -frerun-loop-opt -frerun-cse-after-loop -fexpensive-optimizations -falign-functions=4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse,387 -march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C++... yes checking whether c++ accepts -g... yes checking for a BSD compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes checking target system type... config.sub: missing argument Try `config.sub --help' for more information. checking for sdl-config... /usr/bin/sdl-config checking for SDL - version >= 1.2.0... yes checking for Mix_OpenAudio in -lSDL_mixer... yes checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for vprintf... yes updating cache ./config.cache creating ./config.status creating Makefile creating src/Makefile creating Tgfx/Makefile creating data/Makefile creating fonts/Makefile creating music/Makefile creating sounds/Makefile creating docs/Makefile creating config.h cd . && autoconf FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.54 or higher is required for this script make: *** [configure] Error 2 !!! ERROR: games-arcade/pachi-1.0 failed. !!! Function games_src_compile, Line 150, Exitcode 2 !!! emake failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 12 2005, 10:53:32)] distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -frerun-loop-opt -frerun-cse-after-loop -fexpensive-optimizations -falign-functions=4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse,387 -march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /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/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /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/afs/C /etc/afs/afsws /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -frerun-loop-opt -frerun-cse-after-loop -fexpensive-optimizations -falign-functions=4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse,387 -march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 16bit X X509 Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi acpi4linux adns afs aim alsaamd anthy apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid async athena audiofile avi bash-completion bcmath bdf bidi bitmap-fonts bmp bootsplash boundschecking bzip2 bzlib c++ calendar canna caps cdb cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cdrom chasen cjk clamav clanJavaScript clanVoice codecs cpdflib crypt cscope css ctype cups curl curlwrappers dba dbi dbm dbx devfs26 dga dhcp dio directfb distcache divx4linux djbfft dmx dnd doc dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread edl emboss emoticon encode erandom ethereal examples exif expat f2c f77 faac faad faad2 fam fame fastcgi fbcon fbdev fdftk ffmpeg fftw firebird flac flash flatfile fmod font-server foomaticdb fortran fpx freetype freewnn fs ftp gcj gd gdbm geoip ggi gif gimp gimpprint ginac glut gmp gnutls gphoto2 graphviz gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal hbci i8x0 icc icc-pgo iconv icq icu ieee1394 image imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 inifile innodb intl iodbc ipv6 jack jasper java javacomm javadoc javamail javascript jbig jce jikes jp2 jpeg jpeg2k junit justify kadu-modules kadu-voice kde kerberos krb4 ladcca lcms ldap lesstif libcaca libclamav libg++ libsamplerate libwww live lm_sensors ltsp lzo lzw lzw-tiff m17n-lib mad mailbox maildir makecheck matroska mbox mcal md5sum mdb memlimit mhash migemo mikmod mime ming mjpeg mmap mmx mmx2 mng mnogosearch monkey mozcalendar mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mplayer msession msn mysql mysqli nas ncurses neXt netcdf network nls nocardbus nocd ntlm nvidia oav objc odbc offensive ofx ogg oggvorbis ooo-kde openal opengl oscar pam parse-clocks pcntl pcre pda pdf pdflib perl php physfs pic pie plotutils png portaudio posix ppds prelude print profile pwdb python qt quicktime quotas rdesktop readline real recode rrdtool rtc samba sasl scanner screenshot sdk sdl session shared sharedmem silc simplexml skk slang slp smime smtp sndfile soap sockets source sox speedo speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl stream subject-rewrite svg svga sysvipc szip tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora threads tidy tiff tokenizer tools transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts ucs2 ucs4 uim unicode usb utf8 vanilla vcd vhosts videos vim-with-x vnc winbind wmf wxwindows x11vnc xanim xface xim xine xinerama xinetd xml xml2 xmms xosd xpm xprint xrandr xscreensaver xsl xv xvidxvmc yahoo yv12 zlib video_cards_i810 video_cards_i830 video_cards_nvidia linguas_de linguas_fr linguas_en linguas_es linguas_ja linguas_ar" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
fixed in cvs. thanks for the bug report.
