Bugzilla Bug 181472

# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2.7 (hardened/ppc64, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r5, 2.6.16.9 ppc64)
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System uname: 2.6.16.9 ppc64 POWER5 (gr)
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 18:00:09 +0000
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="C"
LC_ALL="C"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="berkdb crypt hardened midi pam pic ppc64 readline ssl urandom zlib"
ELIBC="glibc" KERNEL="linux" USERLAND="GNU"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS,
PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Created an attachment (id=121611) [details]
gzip-1.3.11.log

app-arch/gzip-1.3.5-r10 seems to be unaffected, every other version fails as
shown in the attached log.

most likely a dupe of Bug 180764

(In reply to comment #3)
> most likely a dupe of Bug 180764

Nah, more likely a bug w/ PIE and glibc-2.3.6 on ppc64 ;(

upgrade your glibc