After libexpat.so.0 -> libexpat.so.1 made my system barely usable, I needed to revdep-rebuild lots of packages, all kde stuff included. When compiling kdelibs I got: /bin/sh ../libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=link x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -march=nocona -O2 -pipe -ftree-vectorize -fPIC -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -o libkdeinit_kcmshell.la -rpath /usr/kde/3.5/lib64 -no-undefined -avoid-version -L/usr/kde/3.5/lib64 -L/usr/qt/3/lib64 -L/usr/lib64 main.lo main_skel.lo ../kutils/libkutils.la /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.2.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: .libs/main_skel.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against `vtable for QMemArray<char>' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.2.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [libkdeinit_kcmshell.la] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.7-r2/work/kdelibs-3.5.7/kcmshell' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.7-r2/work/kdelibs-3.5.7' make: *** [all] Error 2 The offending files are coming from qt-3.3.8-r2: In archive /usr/qt/3/lib64/libdesignercore.a: 0000000000000ed1 R_X86_64_PC32 .LC0+0xfffffffffffffffc 0000000000000f12 R_X86_64_PC32 .LC1+0xfffffffffffffffc 00000000000010bb R_X86_64_PC32 .LC5+0xfffffffffffffffc 000000000000114b R_X86_64_PC32 .LC5+0xfffffffffffffffc 0000000000001198 R_X86_64_PC32 .LC6+0xfffffffffffffffc 0000000000003407 R_X86_64_PC32 .LC7+0xfffffffffffffffc (...) the same for all three .a files: # ls /usr/qt/3/lib64/*.a /usr/qt/3/lib64/libdesignercore.a /usr/qt/3/lib64/libeditor.a /usr/qt/3/lib64/libqassistantclient.a Re-emerging qt-3.3.8-r2 does not help Reproducible: Always # emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.11 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.0, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.23-rc2-hrt1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-rc2-hrt1 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 08:00:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 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: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -ftree-vectorize " CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -ftree-vectorize " DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="es es_ES en" MAKEOPTS="" 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" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/layman/voip /usr/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl acpi aiglx alsa amd64 apache2 arts avahi avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bonjour cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evdev evo fam firefox fortran galago gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv icu iproute2 ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde kdehiddenvisibility kerberos lcms ldap libg++ libnotify logrotate lucene mad midi mikmod mmx mono mouse mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin obex ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode v4l v4l2 vorbis xinerama xml xorg xrandr xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" DVB_CARDS="usb-wt220u" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="synaptics mouse evdev keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="es es_ES en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa i810 intel" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 186089 ***
