dev-libs/popt-1.7-r1 fails to emerge on a fresh install (emerge -e system) on an amd64 because of a missing /usr/bin/automake-1.6: Applying popt-1.7-nls.patch ... am-wrapper: /usr/bin/automake-1.6 is missing or not executable. Please try emerging the correct version of automake. * Automake used for the package (1.6.3) differs from * the installed version (). * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/popt-1.7-r1/work/popt-1.7' ... * Running aclocal ... * Failed Running aclocal !
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 148187 ***
Dupe.