[gentoo-user] emerge -e errors right after install

[Francisco Ares]

Hello, all.

Gentoo is absolutely great.

This is mainly to make clear I am pretty satisfied on how things are made
to let us have a Linux distro that does not use binary packages, everything
being built almost from the ground up.

But (here comes the "but"), right on the point I was able to build the
kernel (I'm using the live CD  from 08/01/2013 for x86_64 machine, and a
stage 3 tarballl from the same date for the same machine), I tried an
"emerge -e world", and there were so many errors that very few packages
were able to be completely built.

Mainly the errors are at the end of the "config" stage, and they are like:

...
config.status: creating Makefile
./config.status: line 1091: 26891 Done(141)               eval sed
\"\$ac_sed_extra\" "$ac_file_inputs"
     26892 Illegal instruction     | $AWK -f "$ac_tmp/subs.awk" >
$ac_tmp/out
config.status: error: could not create Makefile
...


or


...
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating install-info/tests/defs
./config.status: line 1218: 31166 Done(141)               eval sed
\"\$ac_sed_extra\" "$ac_file_inputs"
     31167 Illegal instruction     | $AWK -f "$tmp/subs.awk" > $tmp/out
config.status: error: could not create install-info/tests/defs
...

or, like "xz-utils", that complained that it was unable to create a
Doxyfile, even having a

I have built binary packages for "sed" and "gawk", created in a machine
with the same characteristics and configuration, and emerged those to the
new machine.  Even so, the errors keep coming.

Am I too anxious?  I did not see anything further in the documentation that
could help this situation, so even not having finished all the installation
procedure, I think it should be possible, at this moment, right before
building a kernel (but after a few pages, right before section "9.
Installing Necessary System Tools").

In fact, it seems like there is one (or some) package(s) missing.

Thanks
Francisco