Build Error During Gentoo Bootstrap
 

I am running the bootstrap.sh script during the Gentoo stage 1 install and received the following error:

make[1]: cru: Command not found
make[1]: *** [libm4.a] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/m4-1.4.1/work/m4-1.4.1/lib'
make: *** [all] Error 1

!!! ERROR: sys-devel/m4-1.4.1 failed
!!! Function src_compile, Line 26, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)


Any suggestions?


Thanks,
jrtayloriv

BUG REPORT
 

I posted this on Gentoo.org's forums as well and many people replied that they were having the same problem, on multiple platforms. Apparently the mysterious "cru" command turns out to be a set of arguments to the 'ar' command, which somehow got dropped from the bootsrap script. A bug report has been filed and can be viewed at the site below:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76199

I'll keep everyone posted about the progress of this issue.



jrtayloriv

TEMPORARY FIX
 

In the meanwhile, if anyone else is having this problem, a temporary fix is to enter...

export AR=ar

...at the command prompt. Then run bootstrap.sh again.


jrtayloriv