I've found threads with problems with this version while compiling but not this error: >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking sysfsutils-1.3.0.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/sysfsutils-1.3.0-r1/work * Running elibtoolize in: sysfsutils-1.3.0 * Applying portage-1.4.1.patch ... * Applying sed-1.4.0.patch ... * Applying uclibc-conf-1.2.0.patch ... >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/sysfsutils-1.3.0-r1/work/sysfsutils-1.3.0 ... * econf: updating sysfsutils-1.3.0/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating sysfsutils-1.3.0/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i586-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --datadir: !!! ERROR: sys-fs/sysfsutils-1.3.0-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1894: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 941: Called src_compile ebuild.sh, line 589: Called econf !!! econf failed =============== emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686 VIA Samuel 2 Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 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="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=i586 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://mirror.nutsmaas.nl/gentoo/" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt eds emboss encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 imap imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad maildir mikmod motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pam-mysql pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sasl spell ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123342 ***
