2011/5/5 Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

> On Thursday 05 May 2011 03:00:23 Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I just installed a Gentoo box and i am having a bizarre problem (bizarre
> > for me at least), i'd like to point that the only solution i have found
> so
> > far (attempt to modify some eclass) is way beyond the limit of
> complexness
> > that i am used to so if there is another way i would really appreciate if
> > anyone pointed it out for me
> >
> > And in case it is not obvious, i am pretty much of a rookie regardind
> > gentoo and linux in general
> >
> > anyway, thanks in advance!!!
> >
> > The thing is that emerging mirrorselect has the following outcome:
> >
> > * QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths
> >  * ERROR: dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428 failed:
> >  *   soiled libtool library files found
>
> Hmm ... I don't know why this is caused, but I would run:
>
>  emerge --oneshot -av libtool
>
> and then
>
>  revdep-rebuild -v -- --ask
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>

I tried to emerge libtool and i detected some seriously weird behaviour,
emerge configures libtool over an over in an infinite loop...

this is where the process resets:

...
running CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash /bin/bash ./configure --prefix=/usr
--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc
--localstatedir=/var/lib build_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu
host_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1
-Wl,--as-needed CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe FFLAGS= FCFLAGS= --no-create
--no-recursion
## -------------------------- ##
## Configuring libtool 2.2.10 ##
## -------------------------- ##

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
...

if i don't interrupt it just keep going, i think there is something
seriously wrong with my system...