When installing the latest (2.4.20-r1) version of gentoo-sources, the emerge freezes towards the end of the process after printing out some warning messages. The problem is caused by some "ewarn" statements in the ebuild that do not have any arguments. Deleting the empty ewarn statements from the ebuild cures the problem.
please paste #emerge info
Try remerging portage, if that doesn't solve it, I'll edit the ebuild later.
Here is the requested output from "emerge info": Portage 2.0.47-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-xfs_pre6 i686 Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU 2.00GHz GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm arts avi crypt cups encode gif gpm gtk imlib java jpeg kde gnome libg++ libwww mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pdflib png qt quicktime sdl spell svga truetype X xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline tcpd pam ssl perl python -alsa imap junit maildir mozilla samba mysql" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache
This is a brand new install (i.e. the latest version of portage). I hacked up the ebuild myself so I don't need a patch. I just wanted you to be aware of this since it could have a major impact on the acceptance of 1.4.
If you could (even though you are on the latest -r of portage already) please remerge portage and then try the original gentoo-sources ebuild again...
That seems to have fixed the problem. What was going on there?
Someone in the neighborhood of carpaski and azarah knows... but I certainly do not... I just know that when I asked carpaski about a similar problem he said "remerge portage" so I did and it worked. Carpaski?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16466 ***