Error during bootstrapping

Howdy all,

  I can't get past the bootstrapping process because there is some 
horrible problem with the makefile for TexInfo.
  I burned the liveCD and have been trying to use the stage one tarball. 
Everthing goes well until I attempt to run the bootstrapping script 
(bootstrap.sh).

   This has been frustrating me for the better part of a month, any help 
you guys could offer would be greatly appreciated

  I will attempt to recreate the output from Make here so someone can help:

*******BEGIN OUTPUT********

gcc     -march=pentium3 -03 -pipe     -o -install-info -install-info.o 
../lib/libtxi.a

make[2]:    Leaving directory 
`/var/tmp/portage/texinfo-4.2-r4/work/texinfo-4.2/util'

Making all in doc
make[2]:    Entering directory 
`/var/tmp/portage/texinfo-4.2-r4/work/texinfo-4.2/doc'

../makeinfo/makeinfo -I. texinfo.txi
../makeinfo/makeinfo -I. `echo info-stnd.texi | sed 's,.*/,,'`
../makeinfo/makeinfo -I. `echo info.text | sed 's,.*/,,'`

make[2]:    *** [texinfo] Illegal Instruction
make[2]:    *** Deleting file `texinfo'
make[2]:    Leaving directory 
`/var/tmp/portage/texinfo-4.2-r4/work/texinfo-4.2/doc'
make[1]:    *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]:    Leaving directory 
`/var/tmp/portage/texinfo-4.2-r4/work/texinfo-4.2'
make :    *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: The ebuild to not complete succesfully.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 13, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

**********END OUTPUT*******

The sed commands are a bit too dense for me....

Thanks for your help.

Dave Hearne