Bug 31751 – When I try to emerge kde, it fails during kde-base. Resulting error is: kdebase-3.1.4 failed

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Dewey 2003-10-22 10:24:32 UTC]

This is a full paste of the error on Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.11, on an
athlon xp based pc. I've tried with and without the USE statement:

$ USE="scanner pda samba" emerge kde
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 16) kde-base/kdebase-3.1.4 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) kdebase-3.1.4.tar.bz2
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking kdebase-3.1.4.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.1.4/work
 * Applying focus-patch.diff...                                           [ ok ]
 * Applying konq-crash-patch.diff...                                      [ ok ]
>>> Source unpacked.
configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
configure: WARNING: invalid host type: No
configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
configure: WARNING: invalid host type: set!
configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
configure: WARNING: invalid host type: No
configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
configure: WARNING: invalid host type: set!
configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
configure: WARNING: invalid host type: No
configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
configure: WARNING: invalid host type: set!
checking build system type... Invalid configuration `No': machine `No' not
recognized
configure: error: /bin/sh admin/config.sub No failed

!!! ERROR: kde-base/kdebase-3.1.4 failed.
!!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 125, Exitcode 1
!!! died running ./configure, kde_src_compile:configure

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge sync to make sure everything is up to date.
2. emerge kde
3.

Actual Results:  
Pasted full output above.

Expected Results:  
Successful emerge of package.

System uname: 2.4.20-dc i686 AMD Athlon(TM) MP 1800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.11
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg kde gnome libg++
libwww mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms
xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts aalib svga java X sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl
perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt motif opengl mozilla"

[Comment 1 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2003-10-22 12:58:39 UTC]

Something else is wrong here.  Look in the config.log in the work directory
for the build and see if you can identify what's causing the problem:

checking build system type... Invalid configuration `No': machine `No' not
recognized

That's not a very normal error..most like a misconfig.

[Comment 2 Dewey 2003-10-22 17:01:16 UTC]

I think I've figured out that issue. As suggested by Caleb Tennis, I took
a look at config.log and found that it was looking for JDK_HOME to be set.
That appeared to be my problem. I was able to compile with USE="-java" and
it worked out. So next thing I tried was I edited my /etc/env.d/30java-finalclasspath
and added a CLASSPATH, JDK_HOME, JAVAC, and JAVA_HOME and it looks like it's
compiling.