My system is fairly standard : stable amd64 with gcc 4.8.4, installed recently. I tried several times. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 402572 [details] build log
Going by git log entries, this is OBSOLETE by 1.1.8 (so, covered by bug 527086). But there's something else this bug could be useful for - 1.1.9 was released a few weeks ago.
+*libmtp-1.1.9 (06 May 2015) + + 06 May 2015; Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org> +libmtp-1.1.9.ebuild, + libmtp-9999.ebuild: + version bump, bug #548528