config.status: creating include/builddefs config.status: creating include/config.h === include === gmake[1]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make rule. rm -f attr ln -s . attr === libmisc === gmake[1]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make rule. /usr/bin/libtool --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=athlon -O3 -march=athlon -O3 -DNDEBUG -funsigned-char -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -DVERSION=\"2.4.19\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DPACKAGE=\"attr\" -I./include -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -march=athlon -O3 -DNDEBUG -funsigned-char -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -DVERSION=\"2.4.19\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DPACKAGE=\"attr\" -I../include -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -c quote.c libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag' gmake[1]: *** [quote.lo] Error 1 make: *** [default] Error 2 !!! ERROR: sys-apps/attr-2.4.19 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 57, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge attr 2. 3. Actual Results: Errors out with above message Expected Results: Completed compilation and merge emerge info returns: Portage 2.0.51_rc9 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20041006-r0, 2.6.8-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 distcc 2.18 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowex X acl acpi acpi4linux aim alsa apm atlas avi berkdb bitmap-fonts blas bonobo cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrom chroot clisp crypt cscope cups dio directfb divx4linux djbfft dnd dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds encode erandom evms2 evo exif f77 faac faad fam fastcgi fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac foomaticdb freetype ftp gb gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint ginac gnome gnomedb gnuplot gphoto2 gpm gsl gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal hbci hdf5 icq ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 irda jabber jack jack-tmpfs java javascript jikes joystick jpeg kde lcms libwww lirc lufsusermount mad maildir matroska mcal mikmod mime mmap mmx mmx2 motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mpi mplayer mysql ncurses nls nptl nvidia odbc ofx oggvorbis openal opengl opie oss pam pcre pda pdf pdflib perl pic plotutils png posix postgres ppds python qt quicktime quotes readline rtc samba scanner sdl slang sndfile snortsam spamassassin spell sse ssl stroke svg svga tcpd tetex theora tiff transcode truetype usb v4l v4l2 vnc wmf x86 xfs xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xprint xrandr xsl xv xvid xvmc zlib"
try re-emerging libtool then attr
This is not a problem special to attr, it also happened with xfsprogs and dmapi here. Remerging libtool solved this issue for me. So why does it need to be remerged?
Re-emerging libtools worked as suggested. attr now emerges without erroring out.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67692 ***
