As per bug title. Can't figure out the reason - an ebuild unpack -> ./configure -> make CFLAGS="blah blah" -> make DESTDIR=/what/ever install procedure does indeed produce the required static library. This started to happen around two weeks ago. This is a pretty annoying problem since it blocks a remerge of syslog-ng, which eems to absolutely require libol.a. I noticed a similar situation on several other packages (net-libs/libnet comes to mind, which fails to build /usr/lib/libnet.a causing tcptraceroute to fail on build), so this may be a toolchain problem. I re-emerged the toolchain cleanly twice in a row with no effect. Upgraded and downgraded binutils and gcc to known-good versions with no effect. I'm sticking this in as a libol bug since the libol ebuild is very simple, hence diagnosing this will probably be easier. The hardware is fine, I've ruled that out as a cause. I'm stumped. Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6. 11-hardened-r15 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-hardened-r15 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.1-r1 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: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -msse -msse2 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident -pipe - fstack-protector" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/ config /var/bind /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/vpopmail/domains /var/ vpopmail/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -msse -msse2 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident -pipe -fstack-protector" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.napocastar.ro/gentoo.org http://ftp.roedu.net/ pub/mirrors/gentoo.org ftp://ftp.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo.org http://ftp. lug.ro/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://ftp.roedu.net/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 acl adns apache2 bash-completion berkdb bindist bzip2 bzlib caps cdr crypt cups curl doc dvd dvdr encode exif expat fam foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gmp gnutls gpm graphviz iconv imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 ipv6 javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k libwww logrotate lzo maildir mailwrapper memlimit mhash mime mmap mmx mono mysql ncurses nptl odbc offensive pam pcre pdflib perl php pic pie png postgres pwdb python readline samba sasl slang slp snmp soap socks5 source spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl subversion tcpd tetex tidy tiff truetype unicode vhosts wddx wmf xml xml2 xmlrpc xsl zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS package.keywords excerpt with all remotely relevant atoms: ~sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4 ~sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1 ~sys-devel/patch-2.5.9 ~sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.6
Attach the config.log from the build directory as text/plain please.
Created attachment 70329 [details] config.log for dev-libs/libol-0.3.16
Comment on attachment 70329 [details] config.log for dev-libs/libol-0.3.16 You didn't specify whether you needed the config.log for syslog-ng or for libol, so here go both. Note that libol builds fine, it's just that the built package doesn't build the static library.
Created attachment 70330 [details] config.log for app-admin/syslog-ng-1.6.8 syslog-ng of course fails on linking: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=pentium4 -msse -msse2 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident -pipe -fstack-protector -Wall -I/usr/include/libol -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wl,-O1 -o syslog-ng main.o sources.o center.o filters.o destinations.o log.o cfgfile.o cfg-grammar.o cfg-lex.o affile.o afsocket.o afunix.o afinet.o afinter.o afuser.o afstreams.o afprogram.o afremctrl.o nscache.o utils.o syslog-names.o macros.o -lnsl -lresolv /usr/lib/libol.a -lnsl -Wl,-Bstatic -lfl -lwrap -Wl,-Bdynamic i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: /usr/lib/libol.a: No such file or directory make[3]: *** [syslog-ng] Error 1
And libol-config output: router ~ # libol-config --libs -L/usr/lib -lol -lnsl router ~ # libol-config --static-libs /usr/lib/libol.a -lnsl router ~ # libol-config --cflags -I/usr/include/libol router ~ # libol-config --local-cflags -I/var/tmp/portage/libol-0.3.16/work/libol-0.3.16/src router ~ # libol-config --local-static-libs /var/tmp/portage/libol-0.3.16/work/libol-0.3.16/src/.libs/libol.a -lnsl
Well, it doesn't build static libraries because you told it not to by passing --disable-static to configure.
Ugh. EXTRA_ECONF. PEBKAC. I'll locate the nearest hole and crawl into it... I apologize for wasting your time and owe you a drink of your choice...
No problem, glad it's working for you now.
