After an initial install, make.conf was set to ~x86. After an upgrade of make, emerge any package is broken because make fails with the same error: emerge -e system Calculating system dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 110) sys-devel/patch-2.5.9-r1 to / >>> md5 files ;-) patch-2.5.9.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) patch-2.5.9-r1.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-patch-2.5.9 >>> md5 files ;-) files/patch-2.5.9-cr-stripping.patch >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-patch-2.5.9-r1 >>> md5 src_uri ;-) patch-2.5.9.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking patch-2.5.9.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/patch-2.5.9-r1/work * Applying patch-2.5.9-cr-stripping.patch ... [ ok ] >>> Source unpacked. ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu expr: error in regular expression matcher: Value too large for defined data type expr: error in regular expression matcher: Value too large for defined data type expr: error in regular expression matcher: Value too large for defined data type expr: error in regular expression matcher: Value too large for defined data type expr: error in regular expression matcher: Value too large for defined data type expr: error in regular expression matcher: Value too large for defined data type expr: error in regular expression matcher: Value too large for defined data type expr: error in regular expression matcher: Value too large for defined data type configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --datadir: This happens with most packages that require make. Here is the emerge log from the update to ~ 1140374715: === (35 of 385) Post-Build Cleaning (sys-apps/sysvinit-2.86-r4::/usr/portage/sys-apps/sysvinit/sysvinit-2.86-r4.ebuild) 1140374716: >>> AUTOCLEAN: sys-apps/sysvinit 1140374721: === Unmerging... (sys-apps/sysvinit-2.86-r3) 1140374723: >>> unmerge success: sys-apps/sysvinit-2.86-r3 1140374723: ::: completed emerge (35 of 385) sys-apps/sysvinit-2.86-r4 to / 1140374724: >>> emerge (36 of 385) sys-apps/coreutils-5.94 to / 1140374724: === (36 of 385) Cleaning (sys-apps/coreutils-5.94::/usr/portage/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-5.94.ebuild) 1140374725: === (36 of 385) Compiling/Merging (sys-apps/coreutils-5.94::/usr/portage/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-5.94.ebuild) 1140374923: === (36 of 385) Post-Build Cleaning (sys-apps/coreutils-5.94::/usr/portage/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-5.94.ebuild) 1140374924: >>> AUTOCLEAN: sys-apps/coreutils 1140374929: === Unmerging... (sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r7) 1140374932: >>> unmerge success: sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r7 1140374932: ::: completed emerge (36 of 385) sys-apps/coreutils-5.94 to / 1140374932: >>> emerge (37 of 385) sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.0_pre16-r1 to / 1140374932: === (37 of 385) Cleaning (sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.0_pre16-r1::/usr/portage/sys-apps/baselayout/baselayout-1.12.0_pre16-r1.ebuild) 1140374933: === (37 of 385) Compiling/Merging (sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.0_pre16-r1::/usr/portage/sys-apps/baselayout/baselayout-1.12.0_pre16-r1.ebuild) 1140374953: === (37 of 385) Post-Build Cleaning (sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.0_pre16-r1::/usr/portage/sys-apps/baselayout/baselayout-1.12.0_pre16-r1.ebuild) 1140374954: >>> AUTOCLEAN: sys-apps/baselayout 1140374959: === Unmerging... (sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.14-r5) 1140374961: >>> unmerge success: sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.14-r5 1140374961: ::: completed emerge (37 of 385) sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.0_pre16-r1 to / 1140374961: >>> emerge (38 of 385) sys-fs/udev-084 to / 1140374961: === (38 of 385) Cleaning (sys-fs/udev-084::/usr/portage/sys-fs/udev/udev-084.ebuild) 1140374962: === (38 of 385) Compiling/Merging (sys-fs/udev-084::/usr/portage/sys-fs/udev/udev-084.ebuild) 1140374985: === (38 of 385) Post-Build Cleaning (sys-fs/udev-084::/usr/portage/sys-fs/udev/udev-084.ebuild) 1140374986: >>> AUTOCLEAN: sys-fs/udev 1140374991: === Unmerging... (sys-fs/udev-079-r1) 1140374994: >>> unmerge success: sys-fs/udev-079-r1 1140374994: ::: completed emerge (38 of 385) sys-fs/udev-084 to / 1140374994: >>> emerge (39 of 385) sys-devel/make-3.80-r4 to / 1140374994: === (39 of 385) Cleaning (sys-devel/make-3.80-r4::/usr/portage/sys-devel/make/make-3.80-r4.ebuild) 1140374995: === (39 of 385) Compiling/Merging (sys-devel/make-3.80-r4::/usr/portage/sys-devel/make/make-3.80-r4.ebuild) 1140374999: *** terminating. Since I cannot emerge make as regular package this system is pretty screwed. Please advise. emerge --info Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1-70 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1-70 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 crypt cups curl eds emboss encode expat fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 idn imlib ipv6 jpeg kde lcms libg++ libwww mad mikmod mng motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123342 ***
