(SOLVED) Failed to compile timezone data during emerge @world

[The Great Pengu]

Hi,

I am fairly new to Linux, having toyed with Pop_OS for a bit and then moved on to Endeavoros over the course of three years. I have recently wanted to learn more about Linux and figured the best way to do so was to learn Gentoo. I have been going through the Installation Manual using the minimal-install live-usb and tried to emerge @world, and shortly after it began, it gave me this error:

ERROR: sys-libs/timezone-data-2026a::gentoo failed (compile phase):
emake failed

I am unsure how to fix this. Do I need to finish the time zone instructions and go back?

Thanks in advance!

[NeddySeagoon]

The Great Pengu,

Welcome to Gentoo.
To help us help you we need to see the build log.

Proceed as follows

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emerge wgetpaste 

This tool puts files an command output onto the web so we can see it.

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emerge -1av sys-libs/timezone-data

It will fail but at the end it will say

If you need help ...

that will include the location of the build log.

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wgetpaste /full/path/to/build.log

will put it on the web and give you a URL that you post here.

You may need to use the -s and -S options to wgetpaste.

[The Great Pengu]

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wgetpaste /full/path/to/build.log

will put it on the web and give you a URL that you post here.

Here is the URL: https://bpa.st/XOSVQ

[GDH-gentoo]

Here is the URL: https://bpa.st/XOSVQ

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make j4 -l5 REDO=posix_only TOPDIR= ZICDIR=$(TOPDIR)/usr/bin 'CFLAGS=-march=native -O2 -pipe -std=gnu99  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -DHAVE_GETTEXT=1 -DTZ_DOMAIN=\"libc\" -DZIC_BLOAT_DEFAULT=\"fat\"' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs' LDLIBS= 
make: *** No rule to make target 'j4'.  Stop.

If I had to guess, you have a typo in /etc/portage/make.conf. You must have written j4 in MAKEOPTS instead of -j4 (with a leading hyphen).

[The Great Pengu]

/etc/portage/make.conf[/ic]. You must have written j4 in MAKEOPTS instead of -j4 (with a leading hyphen).

Yep. That was it. It is happily compiling now. Thanks for the fix!