When running the toolchain scripts, you will often miss errormessages about missing packages. Maybe we could check for some more in main.subr

which wget >/dev/null || die "missing wget" which stow >/dev/null || die "missing stow" which javac >/dev/null || die "missing javac" which aclocal >/dev/null || die "missing aclocal" which automake >/dev/null || die "missing automake" which autoconf >/dev/null || die "missing autoconf" which makeinfo >/dev/null || die "missing makeinfo (texinfo package)"

For ubuntu lucid I had to install the following ones: apt-get install stow texinfo git-core subversion vim build-essential wget automake autoconf screen openjdk-6-jdk libncurses5-dev libz-dev libusb-dev libreadline6

Thank you for the report. I'll add some sanity check to toolchain script as you suggested.

Thanks.

I had the same problem (running Debian wheezy 64bit), installing the above packages helped.