Hi everyone!

I have a big problem trying to install Gentoo. I have completed all the steps from the manual, as I have did it so many times, and I'm stuck trying to install syslog-ng. The machine is very old, it has an Athlon processor and 256MB of RAM, but it worked fine with gentoo. The error can be seen bellow:

Making all in emacs 
make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68/lib/emacs' 
WARNING: Warnings can be ignored. :-) 
touch: setting times of `elc-temp': No such file or directory 
make[3]: *** [elc-stamp] Error 1 
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68/lib/emacs' 
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68/lib' 
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68' 
make: *** [all] Error 2 
emake failed 
 * ERROR: sys-devel/autoconf-2.68 failed (compile phase): 
 *   emake failed 
 * 
 * Call stack: 
 *     ebuild.sh, line  56:  Called src_compile 
 *   environment, line 147:  Called _eapi2_src_compile 
 *     ebuild.sh, line 669:  Called die 
 * The specific snippet of code: 
 *              emake || die "emake failed" 
 * 
 * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =sys-devel/autoconf-2.68', 
 * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv =sys-devel/autoconf-2.68'. 
 * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/temp/build.log'. 
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/temp/environment'. 
 * S: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68' 

>>> Failed to emerge sys-devel/autoconf-2.68, Log file: 

>>>  '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/temp/build.log' 

 * Messages for package sys-devel/autoconf-2.68: 

 * ERROR: sys-devel/autoconf-2.68 failed (compile phase): 
 *   emake failed 
 * 
 * Call stack: 
 *     ebuild.sh, line  56:  Called src_compile 
 *   environment, line 147:  Called _eapi2_src_compile 
 *     ebuild.sh, line 669:  Called die 
 * The specific snippet of code: 
 *              emake || die "emake failed" 
 * 
 * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =sys-devel/autoconf-2.68', 
 * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv =sys-devel/autoconf-2.68'. 
 * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/temp/build.log'. 
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/temp/environment'. 
 * S: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.68/work/autoconf-2.68' 

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The same error I get for vixie-cron.

Some other things worth mentioning:
- portage didn't request for an update
- mirrorselect -i -o faild with error: cannot download a list of mirrors or something similar.

I will really appreciate your help as my "server" is down for two days now.

Thank you!

Best regards!