On my system (Athlon XP 3000+), emerging ltrace (ltrace-0.3.31.ebuild) sometimes fails. I have been able to fix the problem by specifying "-j1" in MAKEOPTS. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. $ emerge =dev-util/ltrace-0.3.31 Actual Results: Emerge fails with the following error: >>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-util/ltrace-0.3.31 to / [...] gcc -Wall -mcpu=athlon -O3 -pipe -DSYSCONFDIR=\"/etc\" -I/var/tmp/portage/ltrace-0.3.31/work/ltrace-0.3.31/sysdeps/linux-gnu/i386 -I/var/tmp/portage/ltrace-0.3.31/work/ltrace-0.3.31 -I/var/tmp/portage/ltrace-0.3.31/work/ltrace-0.3.31/sysdeps/linux-gnu -I- -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c -o trace.o trace.c : /var/tmp/portage/ltrace-0.3.31/work/ltrace-0.3.31/ltrace.h:12:20: sysdep.h: No such file or directory In file included from ltrace.c:15: /var/tmp/portage/ltrace-0.3.31/work/ltrace-0.3.31/ltrace.h:22: `BREAKPOINT_LENGTH' undeclared here (not in a function) make: *** [ltrace.o] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... [...] !!! ERROR: dev-util/ltrace-0.3.31 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 25, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Expected Results: Emerge should not fail. See [1] for a log of the error with the current buggy ebuild. See [2] for a log of a successful emerge with the new ebuild. See [3] for the new ebuild fixing the bug. [1] http://epita.fr/~bevand_m/pub/gentoo/ltrace-0.3.31/log.failure [2] http://epita.fr/~bevand_m/pub/gentoo/ltrace-0.3.31/log.success [3] http://epita.fr/~bevand_m/pub/gentoo/ltrace-0.3.31/ltrace-0.3.31-r1.ebuild Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22_pre2-gss) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22_pre2-gss i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 3000+ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu 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/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png qt slang spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb readline svga ruby X sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python oggvorbis gtk opengl mozilla dvd avi -quicktime -gnome -kde -arts -alsa -motif -java"
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