The test phase of coreutils fails with this error: echo '#define LOCALEDIR "/usr/share/locale"' >localedir.h-t cmp localedir.h-t localedir.h > /dev/null 2>&1 && rm -f localedir.h-t || { rm -f localedir.h; mv localedir.h-t localedir.h; } rm -rf progs-readme progs-makefile echo [ chgrp chown chmod cp dd dircolors du ginstall link ln dir vdir ls mkdir mkfifo mknod mv nohup readlink rm rmdir shred stat sync touch unlink cat cksum comm csplit cut expand fmt fold head join md5sum nl od paste pr ptx sha1sum sort split sum tac tail tr tsort unexpand uniq wc basename date dirname echo env expr factor false id logname pathchk printenv printf pwd seq sleep tee test true tty whoami yes uname chroot hostid nice pinky users who stty df chroot df hostid nice pinky stty uname users who \ | tr -s ' ' '\n' | LC_ALL=C sort -u > progs-makefile && \ sed -n '/^The programs .* are:/,/^[a-zA-Z]/p' ../README \ | sed -n '/^ */s///p' | tr -s ' ' '\n' > progs-readme diff progs-makefile progs-readme && rm -rf progs-readme progs-makefile 30a31 > hostname make: *** [check-README] Error 1 It come down to the fact that it looks in the src_topdir/README file for a list of programs built -- this includes hostname, which in my case is not being compiled and compares it to the list of files built in the Makefile. root@kruuslt ~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r8 (gcc34-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-rc4-love1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-rc4-love1 i686 Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Nov 1 2004, 20:57:41)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r2, 1.6.3, 1.9.3, 1.5, 1.7.9 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe -ftracer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe -ftracer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs candy ccache distlocks maketest sandbox userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://prometheus.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/bmg-main /usr/local/trunk /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X Xaw3d alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dga dvd encode f77 flac foomaticdb fortran gcj gdbm gif gnutls gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib java jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir makecheck mikmod mmx mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl odbc oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib perl pic png postgres python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svg svga tcpd tetex tiff truetype unicode x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv zlib video_cards_radeon linguas_en" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Can work around by editing the README but then see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75934
fixed in coreutils-5.2.1-r4
