"emerge kdebase" exits. It seems that machine type is set to 'No'. The problem only arises when compiling kdebase, compiling other packages works. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge kdebase Actual Results: # emerge kdebase Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) kde-base/kdebase-3.2.1 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) kdebase-3.2.1.tar.bz2 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking kdebase-3.2.1.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.2.1/work >>> Source unpacked. pam configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target configure: WARNING: invalid host type: No configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target configure: WARNING: invalid host type: set! checking build system type... Invalid configuration `No': machine `No' not recognized configure: error: /bin/sh admin/config.sub No failed !!! ERROR: kde-base/kdebase-3.2.1 failed. !!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 117, Exitcode 1 !!! died running ./configure, kde_src_compile:configure Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.6.3-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.3-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=athlon-tbird -march=athlon-tbird -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=athlon-tbird -march=athlon-tbird -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://proxy.afra/pub/gentoo/ ftp://dist:dist@sauppem.afra/ ftp://dist:dist@wittj.afra/ ftp://tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ " MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://proxy/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups divx dvd encode esd fastcgi flash foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imap imlib innodb java jikes jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype unicode usb wmf x86 xml xml2 xmms xosd xv zlib zlibi"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48462 ***