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As I told you yesterday, I've troubles with my gentoo box. Because of some incompatibilities between php5 and xoops, I wanted to roll back to php4. Emerge failed (don't know why anymore, I think it was mysqlclient or something like that), but on Gentoo Forums, they suggest a revdep-rebuild. One of those packages to rebuild was libwww. That one didn't rebuild, and again on Gentoo Forums they suggested to unmerge and re-emerge it, so I did, but only the first part of it succeeded: unmerging. Emerging gives output like this:

emerge libwww
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r2 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) w3c-libwww-5.4.0.tgz
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) libwww-5.4.0-debian-autoconf-2.5.patch.bz2
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking w3c-libwww-5.4.0.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/libwww-5.4.0-r2/work
>>> Unpacking libwww-5.4.0-debian-autoconf-2.5.patch.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/libwww-5.4.0-r2/work
* Applying libwww-config-liborder.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying libwww-5.4.0-debian-autoconf-2.5.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying libwww-5.4.0-autoconf-gentoo.diff ... [ ok ]
* Applying libwww-5.4.0-automake-gentoo.diff ... [ ok ]
* Applying libwww-5.4.0-disable-ndebug-gentoo.diff ... [ ok ]
QA Notice: USE Flag 'macos' not in IUSE for net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r2
You should update your `aclocal.m4' by running aclocal.
Putting files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `config'.
/usr/portage/net-libs/libwww/libwww-5.4.0-r2.ebuild: line 45: aclocal: command not found

!!! ERROR: net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r2 failed.
!!! Function src_unpack, Line 45, Exitcode 127
!!! aclocal failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

So it seems aclocal can't be found. A lookup pointed that I have aclocal 1.5, 1.7, 1.8 and 1.9. I tried to create a symlink named "aclocal" to aclocal-1.9. This results in lots of warnings when emerging libwww, but it compiles. The big problem is, since then, I have crashes (segfaults) of firefox and thunderbird when I'm viewing some sites (like The Register). I created a new symlink to aclocal-1.5, wich made libwww emerging with lots less warnings, but the crashes remain. I searched around in bugzilla and forums but no solution. I'll create a new bugreport, let's hope somethings comes out of it. I'll keep you on touch!