Error compiling automake on Sparc20

[dgellis]

My Sparc is a SparcServer 20, 256MB DRAM, twin 75MHz CPUs. I started with Gentoo 1.4, but have pretty much kept up to date.

Here's today's error:
cat emerge-automake.log

>>> Downloading http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/distfiles/automake-1.8.2.tar.bz2
--07:10:04-- http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/distfiles/automake-1.8.2.tar.bz2
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/automake-1.8.2.tar.bz2'
Resolving gentoo.oregonstate.edu... 128.193.0.3
Connecting to gentoo.oregonstate.edu[128.193.0.3]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 638,894 [application/x-tar]

0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 8% 1.19 MB/s
50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 16% 384.33 KB/s
100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 24% 415.27 KB/s
150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 32% 392.90 KB/s
200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 40% 495.03 KB/s
250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 48% 415.69 KB/s
300K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 56% 645.09 KB/s
350K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 64% 392.28 KB/s
400K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 72% 390.69 KB/s
450K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 80% 752.12 KB/s
500K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 88% 425.06 KB/s
550K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 96% 433.06 KB/s
600K .......... .......... ... 100% 957.79 KB/s

07:10:06 (480.89 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/automake-1.8.2.tar.bz2' saved [638894/638894]

>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking automake-1.8.2.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/automake-1.8.2/work
>>> Unpacking automake-1.7.9.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/automake-1.8.2/work
>>> Unpacking automake-1.6.3.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/automake-1.8.2/work
>>> Unpacking automake-1.5.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/automake-1.8.2/work
>>> Unpacking automake-1.4-p6.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/automake-1.8.2/work
* Applying automake-1.5-target_hook.patch... [ ok ]
* Applying automake-1.7.9-infopage-namechange.patch... [ ok ]
* Applying automake-1.8.2-infopage-namechange.patch... [ ok ]
>>> Source unpacked.
checking build system type... sparc-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for tex... no
checking whether autoconf is installed... yes
checking whether autoconf works... yes
checking whether autoconf is recent enough... yes
checking whether ln works... yes
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for fgrep... grep -F
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Automake/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Automake/tests/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/am/Makefile
config.status: creating m4/Makefile
config.status: creating tests/Makefile
config.status: creating tests/defs
config.status: creating tests/aclocal-1.8
config.status: creating tests/automake-1.8
make: *** No rule to make target `m4/amversion.m4', needed by `Makefile.in'. Stop.

!!! ERROR: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 112, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 to /
>>> md5 src_uri automake-1.8.2.tar.bz2
>>> md5 src_uri automake-1.7.9.tar.bz2
>>> md5 src_uri automake-1.6.3.tar.bz2
>>> md5 src_uri automake-1.5.tar.gz
>>> md5 src_uri automake-1.4-p6.tar.gz

I hope this helps.

Darren