[gentoo-user] emerge woes

[Nick Smith]

haven't updated my box in a while and when I tried this afternoon and I get this error and cant seem to get past it. any ideas? actually im getting several emerge errors across a couple boxes, this is just one of them, different files, but I hope they are somehow related and the answer to this will fix the others.

 

thanks for any and all help.

 

tuxbox htdocs # emerge -uD world
Calculating world dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 257) sys-devel/m4-1.4.3 to /
>>> Downloading http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo/distfiles/m4-1.4.3.tar.bz2
--14:47:32--  http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo/distfiles/m4-1.4.3.tar.bz2
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/m4-1.4.3.tar.bz2'
Resolving gentoo.seren.com... 65.245.115.11
Connecting to gentoo.seren.com[65.245.115.11]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 305,598 [application/x-tar]

100%[==========================================================================================================================================================>] 305,598       13.81K/s    ETA 00:00

14:48:17 (8.08 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/m4-1.4.3.tar.bz2' saved [305598/305598]

>>> md5 files   ;-) m4-1.4.2-r1.ebuild
>>> md5 files   ;-) m4-1.4.1.ebuild
>>> md5 files   ;-) m4-1.4.3.ebuild
>>> md5 files   ;-) ChangeLog
>>> md5 files   ;-) metadata.xml
>>> md5 files   ;-) files/digest-m4-1.4.2-r1
>>> md5 files   ;-) files/m4-1.4.3-autotools.patch
>>> md5 files   ;-) files/digest-m4-1.4.1
>>> md5 files   ;-) files/digest-m4-1.4.3
>>> md5 files   ;-) files/m4-1.4.3-pointer.patch
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) m4-1.4.3.tar.bz2
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking m4-1.4.3.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/m4-1.4.3/work
 * Applying m4-1.4.3-autotools.patch ...                                                                                                                                                        [ ok ]
 * Applying m4-1.4.3-pointer.patch ...                                                                                                                                                          [ ok ]
>>> Source unpacked.
./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-nls --enable-changeword
configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host.
    If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used.
checking for gawk... gawk
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

!!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/m4-1.4.3/work/m4-1.4.3/config.log

!!! ERROR: sys-devel/m4-1.4.3 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 485, Exitcode 0
!!! econf failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.