Errors arising from trying to do an 'emerge sytem' to fix the original problem

build.log (text/plain), 781 bytes, created by Raphael Mankin on 2008-06-02 08:18:31 UTC

>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking m4-1.4.11.tar.lzma to /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/m4-1.4.11/work
unpack m4-1.4.11.tar.lzma: file format not recognized. Ignoring.
>>> Source unpacked.
>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/m4-1.4.11 ...

!!! ERROR: sys-devel/m4-1.4.11 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1614:   Called dyn_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 971:   Called qa_call 'src_compile'
  environment, line 1187:   Called src_compile
  m4-1.4.11.ebuild, line 23:   Called econf '--enable-nls' '--enable-changeword'
  ebuild.sh, line 580:   Called die

!!! no configure script found
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!!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/m4-1.4.11/temp/build.log'.