Bugzilla Bug 108968

while upgrading to gnome-2.12.0 in ~x86, gdm compilation fails with the
following message:

if i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I..
-DGNOMELOCALEDIR=\""/usr/share/locale"\" -DORBIT2=1 -pthread
-I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0
-I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
-I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libglade-2.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2
-I/usr/include/libgnome-2.0 -I/usr/include/orbit-2.0
-I/usr/include/libbonobo-2.0 -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0
-I/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/include -I/usr/include/bonobo-activation-2.0      -O2
-march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes  -MT
test-ve-config.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/test-ve-config.Tpo" -c -o test-ve-config.o
test-ve-config.c; \
then mv -f ".deps/test-ve-config.Tpo" ".deps/test-ve-config.Po"; else rm -f
".deps/test-ve-config.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `../vicious-extensions/libvicious.a', needed
by `test-ve-config'.  Stop.
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
glade-helper.c: In function `glade_helper_load':
glade-helper.c:65: warning: implicit declaration of function `exit'
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/gdm-2.8.0.5/work/gdm-2.8.0.5/vicious-extensions'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/gdm-2.8.0.5/work/gdm-2.8.0.5/vicious-extensions'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gdm-2.8.0.5/work/gdm-2.8.0.5'
make: *** [all] Error 2

USE flags look like this:
gnome-base/gdm-2.8.0.5 -debug +ipv6 +pam (-selinux) +tcpd -xinerama

and emerge --info:
Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict
userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.whyscream.net/
ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow X aac acpi alsa avi berkdb bmp cdr crypt cups dbus divx4linux dri
dvd eds elibc_glibc encode esd exif fam firefox flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome
gphoto2 gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl imlib ipv6 jpeg kernel_linux libwww mad
matroska matrox mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg
oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib png python quicktime readline samba sdl spell sse
ssl svg tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb
userland_GNU vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xv zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. unmask all gnome-2.12.0 dependencies
2. emerge gnome

Actual Results:  
see above error

Expected Results:  
gdm should have finished compilation

emerging gdm-2.8.0.4 (which is also in ~x86) does work.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 108213 ***