Cannot emerge x.org

[King of Nowhere]

i have just installed gentoo v. 2004.3 on my i686 box. after i rebooted i proceded to emerge x.org. it then errored out while emerging the ebuild "ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r2". the error message is as follows:

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>>Source unpacked.
libtool --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -Wall -pendantic -I/usr/include/freetype2 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -o ttmkfdir.o -c ttmkfdir.cpp
libtool --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -Wall -pendantic -I/usr/include/freetype2 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -o ttmkfdir.o -c ttmkfdir.cpp
/bin/sed: -e expression #1, char 21: unknown command: '/'
/bin/sed: -e expression #1, char 21: unknown command: '/'
/bin/sed: -e expression #1, char 21: unknown command: '/'
libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
libtool: compile: specify a tag with '--tag'
make: *** [directory.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
/bin/sed: -e expression #1, char 21: unknown command: '/'
libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
libtool: compile: specify a tag with '--tag'
make: *** [ttmkfdir.o] Error 1

!!! ERROR x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r2 failed.
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i have no idea how to go about correcting this so if anyone has any suggestions or possible solutions it would be greatly appreciated
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[kaega2]

I'm getting the exact same issue. I did another install of gentoo several days ago without this problem

I have found this problem posted on bugzilla with no real solution. It seems to have been a problem for awhile but I've been just having it in the last couple of days when compiling xorg.

Does anyone know if there's a permenant solution to this?

[Sven Vermeulen]

I added a possible solution to bug #67692 but that's just to solve the issue, not find out what the problem is.

To be honest, I'm not sure why the issue crops up, the solution (adding '--tag=CXX' to the libtool command) just seems to resolve it

I'm not sure if it's going to be added or not though.

[Danathan]

Someone else suggested adding a "-" in front of your CHOST line in the /etc/make.conf. That works as well.

The noticable difference is that the i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ in the libtool line becomes g++.

[tomk]

Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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[King of Nowhere]

thank you, editing make.conf seemed to work
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[k4hlid]

i had a problem with the same package and i just did emerge libtool and then emerge xorg-x11 again and it seems to have worked fine.

[demitrix]

emerge libtool worked for me thanks

[kaega2]

I was able to get past the error myself, but I still see this as a problem.

In the bug it was when emerging ttmkdir specifically. But that's not what I was doing, I was emerging xorg for the first time on a fresh installation. I tried it many times with the same result.

This would be very discouraging to anyone switching over to gentoo for the first time. I hope that there's going to be another fix to get this working properly.

[trizz]

emerge libtool worked for me too.

[Publino]

I've done quite a few installations of gentoo now, mostly performing a stage 2 but now and then a stage 1 and everutime I did stage1, I encountered the same problem, and everytime it was solved by just emerging libtool.

Might be interesint for those who come after me.
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