[plug] Gentoo Emerge question (Problem of late)

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

Shannon Carver wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
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> Any full time gentoo users here?  I’m usually pretty nazi with my 
> updates to my home system (Just a desktop, so no worries about using 
> unstable software), yet lately my emerges have been bombing out on 
> basically every package compilation.  Before I go to trawl the Gentoo 
> forums, I thought I’d ask here, as it seems to be a problem specific to 
> ebuild/econf.  All packages bomb out with:
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> *configure: error: invalid package name:*
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> * *
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> *!!! ERROR: app-shells/bash-3.1_p10 failed.*
> 
> *Call stack:*
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> *  ebuild.sh, line 1928:   Called dyn_compile*
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> *  ebuild.sh, line 966:   Called src_compile*
> 
> *  bash-3.1_p10.ebuild, line 108:   Called econf 'compile' 
> '--without-afs' '--disable-profiling' '--without-gnu-malloc' 
> '--without-installed-readline'*
> 
> * *
> 
> *!!! econf failed*
> 
> *!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call 
> stack if relevant.*
> 
> * *
> 
> I either get that, or *“configure: error: invalid feature name:”*.
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> Contrary to normal, an extensive google search turned up nothing on this 
> occasion relating to my problem.
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> Any help with this (If possible) would be greatly appreciated.
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> Regards
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>  
> 
> Shannon Carver
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It could either be your coreutils or check /etc/make.profile symlink to 
make sure you're using the latest profile for your system/arch. A quick 
search of forums.gentoo.org turned up a few hits so you may already have 
found someone has answered your question. I find google doesn't cache 
forums.gentoo.org very well... for some reason.

Tomasz