While trying to emerge dev-util/awka-0.7.5 I ran into the following problem gcc -O2 -pipe -fPIC -c -o garbage.o garbage.c gcc -O2 -pipe -fPIC -c -o rexp.o rexp.c ar -uvr libawka.a var.o builtin.o error.o init.o array.o io.o garbage.o rexp.o ../regexp/regex.o ../ regexp/dfa.o gcc -shared -O2 -pipe -fPIC var.o builtin.o error.o init.o array.o io.o garbage.o rexp.o ../regexp/ regex.o ../regexp/dfa.o -o libawka.so ar: creating archive libawka.a a - var.o a - builtin.o a - error.o a - init.o a - array.o a - io.o a - garbage.o a - rexp.o a - ../regexp/regex.o a - ../regexp/dfa.o powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.0: unrecognized option '-shared' /usr/bin/ld: warning multiple definitions of symbol _regfree ../regexp/regex.o definition of _regfree in section (__TEXT,__text) /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.0/../../../libSystem.dylib(regfree.So) definition of _regfree /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols: _main __gvar __split_max __split_req collect2: ld returned 1 exit status ranlib libawka.a make[1]: *** [libawka.so] Error 1 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make: *** [libawka] Error 2 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-darwin/macos/10.4, gcc-4.0.0, libsystem-7.1-r0, 8.3.0 Power Macintosh) =============================================================== == System uname: 8.3.0 Power Macintosh powerpc macos-20041118 distcc 2.0.1-zeroconf powerpc-apple-darwin7.0 (protocol 1) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: [Not Present] sys-devel/automake: [Not Present] sys-devel/binutils: [Not Present] sys-devel/libtool: [Not Present] virtual/os-headers: 7.1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc-macos" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc-apple-darwin8" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-apple-darwin8" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/ share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/ gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc aalib emboss gdbm gif imagemagick libwww nls ogg opengl png ppc-macos qt sdl slang tetex tiff vorbis userland_Darwin kernel_Darwin elibc_Darwin" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
indeed has linking issues (and find _main, __gvar, __split_max, __split_req which is possibly caused by not including some objects in the linking phase. The package would generate .so files anyway, so needs thorough patching for Darwin.
