emerge -u of this package ends with a segfault thus: -------------------------------------------------------- checking for sys/procfs.h... yes checking for prstatus_t in sys/procfs.h... /bin/sh: line 1: 14615 Segmentation fault /bin/sh ${libsrcdir}/configure --cache-file=./config.cache --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i686-pc-linux-gnu --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.16.1 --infodir=/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.16.1/info --mandir=/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.16.1/man --bindir=/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/binutils-bin/2.16.1 --libdir=/usr/lib/binutils/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.16.1 --libexecdir=/usr/lib/binutils/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.16.1 --includedir=/usr/lib/binutils/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.16.1/include --enable-64-bit-bfd --enable-shared --disable-werror --without-included-gettext --program-transform-name='s,y,y,' ${srcdiroption} make: *** [configure-bfd] Error 1 !!! ERROR: sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1-r2 failed. !!! Function toolchain-binutils_src_compile, Line 182, Exitcode 2 !!! make configure-bfd failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. -------------------------------------------------------- emerge info returns: -------------------------------------------------------- Portage 2.0.54-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.11.12 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11.12 i686 UML Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present] dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 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: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo-distfiles" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo" USE="x86 acl apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli crypt cups dri eds emboss encode expat foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 idn imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad mhash mikmod mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png pppd python qui cktime readline reflection ruby sdl session slang spell spl ssl tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml xml2 xmms xorg xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elib c_glibc" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY --------------------------------------------------------
I've just resolved this by switching make.profile to point to 2006.0 rather than 2005.1. I'm not sure if you regard that as a "fix" or not ...
If it just randomly worked, sounds like a dupe of bug #20600 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 20600 ***
