When updating my system I encoutered this: >>> Emerging (6 of 66) sys-libs/ncurses-5.6 to / * ncurses-5.6.tar.gz MD5 ;-) ... [ ok ] * ncurses-5.6.tar.gz RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] * ncurses-5.6.tar.gz SHA1 ;-) ... [ ok ] * ncurses-5.6.tar.gz SHA256 ;-) ... [ ok ] * ncurses-5.6.tar.gz size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ncurses-5.6.tar.gz ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking ncurses-5.6.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/ncurses-5.6/work * Applying ncurses-5.6-gfbsd.patch ... [ ok ] >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/ncurses-5.6/work/ncurses-5.6 ... * econf: updating ncurses-5.6/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating ncurses-5.6/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub /usr/bin/confcache --confcache-ignore /var/tmp/ccache:/var/tmp/.distcc --confcache-dir /var/tmp/confcache /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/ncurses-5.6/work/ncurses-5.6/configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/lib --with-terminfo-dirs=/etc/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo --disable-termcap --with-shared --with-rcs-ids --without-ada --enable-symlinks --enable-const --with-chtype=long --with-mmask-t=long --with-manpage-format=normal --without-debug --with-gpm --without-trace --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu configure: loading cache config.cache checking for egrep... (cached) grep -E Configuring NCURSES 5.6 ABI 5 (Wed Jan 24 23:13:37 CET 2007) checking build system type... (cached) i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... (cached) i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... config.sub: missing argument Try `config.sub --help' for more information. configure: error: /bin/sh /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/ncurses-5.6/work/ncurses-5.6/config.sub failed !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/ncurses-5.6/work/narrowc/config.log !!! ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.6 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1611: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 968: Called qa_call 'src_compile' environment, line 3260: Called src_compile ncurses-5.6.ebuild, line 48: Called do_compile ncurses-5.6.ebuild, line 69: Called econf '--libdir=/lib' '--with-terminfo-dirs=/etc/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo' '--disable-termcap' '--with-shared' '--with-rcs-ids' '--without-ada' '--enable-symlinks' '--enable-const' '--with-chtype=long' '--with-mmask-t=long' '--with-manpage-format=normal' '--without-debug' '--with-gpm' '--without-trace' ebuild.sh, line 574: Called die Works nice if I disable confcache. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. enable confcache 2. emerge sys-libs/ncurses-5.6 3. My emerge info: thermal@newhope ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.2-r3 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.18-gentoo-r1-newhope i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r1-newhope i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.8 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:30:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.3.6, 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 dev-util/confcache: 0.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.19.2-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k6 -mtune=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=k6 -mtune=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache collision-protect confcache distlocks metadata-transfer nodoc parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict test" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl http://gentoo.zie.pg.gda.pl" LANG="pl_PL.utf8" LC_ALL="pl_PL.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="pl" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/nx" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X aac aalib acl acpi adns alsa apache2 audacious bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo caps cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dedicated dio dlloader dmi dri dvd embedded emboss encode esd exif ffmpeg fftw flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glitz glut gmp gnutls gpgme gpm gsm gtk gtk2 hal iconv idn imap ipv6 irda isdnlog jabber jack java javascript joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility ldap libcaca libg++ libwww lm_sensors logrotate mad maildir mailwrapper matroska mikmod mime mmap mmx mmxext modplug motif mp3 mpeg ncurses netboot nls nntp nptl nptlonly ogg openal opengl pam pcre pdf perl png pop postgres pppd python qt qt3 quicktime readline real reflection rtc samba sasl sdl sensord session sharedmem slang slp smartcard smime snmp sockets socks5 sox speex spl sse ssl svg sysfs tcpd test tetex theora threads threadstruetype tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vcd vorbis win32codecs x86 xcomposite xine xinerama xinetd xml xml2 xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="pl" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon i810 mach64 nv r128 s3virge s3 savage sis tdfx v4l vesa vga via" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 108060 [details] build log
Created attachment 108062 [details] configure log
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 162875 ***
