The configure file in util-linux-2.12r-r7 contains the following 2 lines: LDFLAGS=${LDFLAGS-"-s"} echo LDFLAGS=$LDFLAGS >> make_include which cause LDFLAGS to include "-s" (strip binaries during linking) unless LDFLAGS is already set. With binaries stripped during linking, splitdebug and nostrip don't work as expected - compare the output of "equery files util-linux | fgrep debug" when util-linux is installed with LDFLAGS set and unset and you get: --- ldflags-unset 2007-09-03 10:39:02.000000000 +1000 +++ ldflags-set 2007-09-03 10:38:20.000000000 +1000 @@ -1,6 +1,66 @@ /usr/lib/debug +/usr/lib/debug/bin +/usr/lib/debug/bin/arch.debug +/usr/lib/debug/bin/dmesg.debug +/usr/lib/debug/bin/more.debug +/usr/lib/debug/bin/mount.debug +/usr/lib/debug/bin/umount.debug +/usr/lib/debug/sbin +/usr/lib/debug/sbin/agetty.debug +/usr/lib/debug/sbin/blockdev.debug +/usr/lib/debug/sbin/cfdisk.debug +/usr/lib/debug/sbin/ctrlaltdel.debug +/usr/lib/debug/sbin/elvtune.debug +/usr/lib/debug/sbin/fdisk.debug +/usr/lib/debug/sbin/fsck.cramfs.debug +/usr/lib/debug/sbin/fsck.minix.debug +/usr/lib/debug/sbin/hwclock.debug +/usr/lib/debug/sbin/losetup.debug +/usr/lib/debug/sbin/mkfs.bfs.debug +/usr/lib/debug/sbin/mkfs.cramfs.debug +/usr/lib/debug/sbin/mkfs.debug +/usr/lib/debug/sbin/mkfs.minix.debug +/usr/lib/debug/sbin/mkswap.debug +/usr/lib/debug/sbin/pivot_root.debug +/usr/lib/debug/sbin/sfdisk.debug +/usr/lib/debug/sbin/swapon.debug /usr/lib/debug/usr +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/cal.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/col.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/colcrt.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/colrm.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/column.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/cytune.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/ddate.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/fdformat.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/flock.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/getopt.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/hexdump.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/ipcrm.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/ipcs.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/isosize.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/line.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/logger.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/look.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/mcookie.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/namei.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/pg.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/raw.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/rename.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/renice.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/rev.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/script.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/setfdprm.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/setsid.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/setterm.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/tailf.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/ul.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/whereis.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/write.debug /usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin /usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin/addpart.debug /usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin/delpart.debug /usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin/partx.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin/readprofile.debug +/usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin/tunelp.debug Portage 2.1.2.12 (hardened/amd64, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.18-hardened-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-hardened-r6 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:20:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -ggdb -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -ggdb -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs cvs distlocks metadata-transfer multilib-strict parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict test userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo http://mirror.isp.net.au/ftp/pub/gentoo/ http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/aross" SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl amd64 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 caps cracklib crypt hardened justify midi ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pic python readline sasl ssl symlink test unicode urandom xorg zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
fixed in cvs, no rev bump