Seems pretty obvious that this test is going to fail if it's performed on a filesystem mounted with "noatime". However, all of my production boxes have the entire fs set to "noatime" for performance reasons. It's even recommended in the Gentoo install guides. GCONV_PATH=/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r2/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/iconvdata LC_ALL=C /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r2/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/elf/ld-linux.so.2 --library-path /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r2/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-nptl:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r2/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/math:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r2/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/elf:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r2/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/dlfcn:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r2/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/nss:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r2/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/nis:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r2/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/rt:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r2/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/resolv:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r2/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/crypt:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r2/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/nptl /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r2/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/libio/tst-atime > /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r2/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/libio/tst-atime.out make[2]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r2/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/libio/tst-atime.out] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r2/work/glibc-2.3.5/libio' make[1]: *** [libio/tests] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r2/work/glibc-2.3.5' make: *** [check] Error 2 !!! ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5-r2 failed. !!! Function toolchain-glibc_src_test, Line 252, Exitcode 2 !!! nptl glibc did not pass make check Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-hardened-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-hardened-r2 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 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: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -ffast-math -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb -frename-registers -funit-at-a-time" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/vpopmail/domains /var/vpopmail/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -ffast-math -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb -frename-registers -funit-at-a-time" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks maketest sandbox sfperms strict test userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://194.117.143.69 ftp://194.117.143.69/mirrors/gentoo http://194.117.143.71 ftp://194.117.143.72/mirrors/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j9" 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 X509 acl apache2 bashlogger berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 caps chroot crypt curl encode erandom extensions extensionsi extraengine fam flash flexresp gd gdbm glibc-omitfp gnutls graphviz hardened hpn imagemagick imap inline innodb inode ithreads java jikes jpeg lcms lm_sensors logrotate mad maildir math mcal mmx mpeg mpm-prefork mysql ncurses netpbm nls no-htdocs nptl nptlonly offensive pam pcre pdflib perl php pic pie png python qmail readline rrdtool sasl session sftplogging shaper snmp snortsam softquota spamassassin spell sse ssl threads tiff truetype unicode utf8 vchroot vhosts xml2 xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86515 ***
