Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

[Willie Wong]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:24:12AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> Googling above or similar is getting me nothing useful: 70%
> non-English pages, and of the remainder, 90% questions without
> answers (from forums.gentoo.org), and of those with answers, answers
> specific to packages bearing no apparent relationship to those
> failing to emerge for me. There are plenty hits for 'die "econf
> failed"' and 'ERROR:...failed (compile phase)', just nothing useful.

Because that is not the real error message. That just tells you when
(whether during configuration or compilation) the build failed. The
actual error is a few tens of lines earlier in the display (so
possibly 1 screen or 2 up in the console). 

Also, instead of posting the complete log on the external site (and
sometimes run into access problems), it may be easier to attach a
partial log to the e-mails to the forum. Something like 'tail -n 100
build.log' usually contains enough information. 

W
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