[plug] Gentoo Emerge question (Problem of late)

[Shannon Carver]

Legend!!

My coreutils needed an update, and my make profile was still pointed at
2005.0

Thankyou very much

Regards

Shannon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
Behalf
> Of Tomasz Grzegurzko
> Sent: Thursday, 2 March 2006 1:18 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Gentoo Emerge question (Problem of late)
> 
> Shannon Carver wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> >
> >
> > 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:
> >
> >
> >
> > *configure: error: invalid package name:*
> >
> > * *
> >
> > *!!! ERROR: app-shells/bash-3.1_p10 failed.*
> >
> > *Call stack:*
> >
> > *  ebuild.sh, line 1928:   Called dyn_compile*
> >
> > *  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:"*.
> >
> >
> >
> > Contrary to normal, an extensive google search turned up nothing on
this
> > occasion relating to my problem.
> >
> >
> >
> > Any help with this (If possible) would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
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