While trying to emerge pngcrush 1.6.2 I ran into the following problem >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/pngcrush-1.6.2/work/pngcrush-1.6.2 ... /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as: I don't understand '-' flag! Apple Computer, Inc. version cctools-590.obj~12, GNU assembler version 1.38 After that, the program hangs, assumedly input from a console is expected. My emerge info !!! Relying on the shell to locate gcc, this may break !!! DISTCC, installing gcc-config and setting your current gcc !!! profile will fix this Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-darwin/macos/10.4, gcc-4.0.0, libsystem-7.1-r0, 8.6.0 Power Macintosh) ================================================================= System uname: 8.6.0 Power Macintosh powerpc macos-20041118 distcc 2.0.1-zeroconf powerpc-apple-darwin7.0 (protocol 1) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: [Not Present] sys-devel/automake: [Not Present] sys-devel/binutils: [Not Present] sys-devel/libtool: [Not Present] virtual/os-headers: 7.1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc-macos" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc-apple-darwin8" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-apple-darwin8" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/local" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc aalib audiofile emboss exif expat ffcall ffmpeg gdbm gif gmp imagemagick jpeg lcms libwww lua mhash mng nls ogg opengl pcre png ppc-macos qt recode sdl slang svg tetex tiff truetype vorbis elibc_Darwin kernel_Darwin userland_Darwin" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
I checked in a patch to let as read from /dev/nulll which shuts it up. Looks like it works fine. Please reopen if pngcrush doesn't work. Thanks!