sys-devel/automake-1.7.9-r1 emerges. after setting some environment variables, the gtk+-2.4.9-r1 ebuild will use automake 1.7.9 to configure. (this is the minimum version of automake required by gtk+) export WANT_AUTOMAKE_1_7=1 && export WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.7 I'm using the gcc 3.3 compiler (set by gcc_select) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. macos-20041118 Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-darwin/macos/10.4, gcc-4.0.0, libsystem-7.1-r0, 8.1.0 Power Macintosh) =============================================================== == System uname: 8.1.0 Power Macintosh powerpc Python: [2.3.5 (#1, Mar 20 2005, 20:38:20)] distcc 2.0.1-zeroconf powerpc-apple-darwin7.0 (protocol 1) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: [Not Present] sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1 sys-devel/binutils: [Not Present] sys-devel/libtool: [Not Present] virtual/os-headers: 7.1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc-macos" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-apple-darwin" 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="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache collision-protect distlocks sfperms strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/ gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc emboss jpeg libwww macos nls png ppc-macos tetex tiff userland_Darwin kernel_Darwin elibc_Darwin" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
already ppc-macos, masked on the 'standard' profile because of collision protection.