>>> Source unpacked. make: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/sysvinit-2.86-r1/work/sysvinit-2.86/src' i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c -O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE init.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c -O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -DINIT_MAIN utmp.c -o init_utmp.o i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o halt.o halt.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o ifdown.o ifdown.c init.c:635: warning: "struct sigcontext" declared inside parameter list init.c:636: error: parameter `ctx' has incomplete type make: *** [init.o] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sysvinit-2.86-r1/work/sysvinit-2.86/src' For some reason it can't find the declaration of sigcontext. pena sysvinit # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre4 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 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 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/src/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache cvs distlocks fixpackages noauto sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo http://lame.lut.fi/linux/gentoo " LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf-8" LINGUAS="fi" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/home/pkg/" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/betelgeuse /usr/local/overlays/gentopia" SYNC="cvs://betelgeuse@cvs.gentoo.org:/var/cvsroot" USE="x86 X aac acl acpi alsa apm audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 bzlib cdb cddb cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dbus divx4linux dts dvd dvdr dvdread emboss esd fam flac foomaticdb freetype gcj gif gstreamer gtk2 hal imagemagick java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas libg++ libwww logitech-mouse lzo mad makecheck mikmod mjpeg mmx mmx2 mp3 mpeg ncurses network nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib png python qt quicktime readline real rtc ruby samba slp spell sse sse2 ssl subversion svg symlink tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis win32codecs xine xml xml2 xv xvid zlib video_cards_nvidia linguas_fi userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
Well my interpretation of the error message could be wrong but hopefully you can figure this out.
adding '#include <sys/ucontext.h>' should fix that
betelgeuse@pena /usr/include/bits $ file sigcontext.h sigcontext.h: empty Something seems to be wrong with my glibc install. I will try reinstalling glibc and see what happens.
re-emerging glibc solved this problem. Hopefully this was just a local problem and not caused by a bug in the glibc ebuild.