while building a new server (which started life as stage 3 from 2004.3 as far as I can tell), I encountered trouble emerging dev-libs/gmp-4.1.4, a dependency of Darcs. The build would just stop (!), no error message, no nothing. Just shell prompt, which was very strange. I re-ran it a few times, and then realized it was re-auto{make,conf} ing, so based on a problem I had recently in another ebuild, I tried upgrading libtool. That fixed the problem. I'm not sure what the precise dependency is, but the libtool I brought in was todays x86 stable, which was libtool-1.5.10-r4. So I recommend that as a dependency of gmp. AfC Toronto
I had the same problem. I used old libtool (1.3.5) and get: [root@/usr/portage/dev-libs] emerge gmp Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-libs/gmp-4.1.4 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) gmp-4.1.4.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking gmp-4.1.4.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work * Applying gmp-4.1.4-multilib.patch ... [ ok ] libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' is serial 46, less than 47 in `aclocal.m4' To remain compatible, you should update your `aclocal.m4' by running aclocal. autoheader-2.59: WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', `config.h.bot' autoheader-2.59: WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for `config.h.in' autoheader-2.59: WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged. autoheader-2.59: autoheader-2.59: WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and autoheader-2.59: WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a template without autoheader-2.59: WARNING: `acconfig.h': autoheader-2.59: autoheader-2.59: WARNING: AC_DEFINE([NEED_FUNC_MAIN], 1, autoheader-2.59: [Define if a function `main' is needed.]) autoheader-2.59: autoheader-2.59: WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the autoheader-2.59: WARNING: documentation. >>> Source unpacked. * econf: updating gmp-4.1.4/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating gmp-4.1.4/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --localstatedir=/var/state/gmp --enable-cxx --enable-mpbsd --enable-mpfr configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. 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./mpn/generic/set_str.c to mpn/set_str.c config.status: linking ./mpn/generic/scan0.c to mpn/scan0.c config.status: linking ./mpn/generic/scan1.c to mpn/scan1.c config.status: linking ./mpn/generic/popcount.c to mpn/popcount.c config.status: linking ./mpn/generic/hamdist.c to mpn/hamdist.c config.status: linking ./mpn/generic/cmp.c to mpn/cmp.c config.status: linking ./mpn/generic/perfsqr.c to mpn/perfsqr.c config.status: linking ./mpn/generic/bdivmod.c to mpn/bdivmod.c config.status: linking ./mpn/generic/gcd_1.c to mpn/gcd_1.c config.status: linking ./mpn/generic/gcd.c to mpn/gcd.c config.status: linking ./mpn/generic/gcdext.c to mpn/gcdext.c config.status: linking ./mpn/generic/tdiv_qr.c to mpn/tdiv_qr.c config.status: linking ./mpn/generic/dc_divrem_n.c to mpn/dc_divrem_n.c config.status: linking ./mpn/generic/sb_divrem_mn.c to mpn/sb_divrem_mn.c config.status: linking ./mpn/generic/jacbase.c to mpn/jacbase.c config.status: linking ./mpn/x86/copyi.asm to mpn/copyi.asm config.status: linking ./mpn/x86/p6/copyd.asm to mpn/copyd.asm config.status: linking ./mpn/x86/p6/gmp-mparam.h to gmp-mparam.h config.status: executing depfiles commands make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4' Making all in tests make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests' Making all in . make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests' Making all in devel make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests/devel' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests/devel' Making all in mpn make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests/mpn' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests/mpn' Making all in mpz make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests/mpz' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests/mpz' Making all in mpq make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests/mpq' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests/mpq' Making all in mpf make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests/mpf' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests/mpf' Making all in rand make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests/rand' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests/rand' Making all in misc make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests/misc' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests/misc' Making all in cxx make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests/cxx' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests/cxx' Making all in mpbsd make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests/mpbsd' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests/mpbsd' make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/tests' Making all in mpn make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/mpn' /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -D__GMP_WITHIN_GMP -I.. -DOPERATION_`echo mp_bases | sed 's/_$//'` -O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o mp_bases.lo `test -f 'mp_bases.c' || echo './'`mp_bases.c /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile --tag=CC ../mpn/m4-ccas --m4="m4" gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -D__GMP_WITHIN_GMP -I.. -DOPERATION_`echo udiv | sed 's/_$//'` -O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer `test -f udiv.asm || echo './'`udiv.asm libtool: unrecognized option `--tag=CC' Try `libtool --help' for more information. make[2]: *** [udiv.lo] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... mkdir .libs gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -D__GMP_WITHIN_GMP -I.. -DOPERATION_mp_bases -O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -c mp_bases.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/mp_bases.lo gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -D__GMP_WITHIN_GMP -I.. -DOPERATION_mp_bases -O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -c mp_bases.c -o mp_bases.o >/dev/null 2>&1 mv -f .libs/mp_bases.lo mp_bases.lo make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4/mpn' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gmp-4.1.4/work/gmp-4.1.4' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: dev-libs/gmp-4.1.4 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 61, Exitcode 2 !!! emake failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Then I emerged libtool-1.4.3-r4 and after that gmb was succesfully emerged.
fixed - thanks Andrew.
