The emerge postgresql-8.0.4 fails with the following error: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing -fpic -shared -Wl,-soname,libpltcl.so.2 pltcl.o -L/usr/lib -L../../../src/port -ltcl8.4 -ldl -lieee -lm -lc -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -o libpltcl.so.2.0 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lieee
can you give us these infrmation, please? emerge info emerge -pv postgresql
# emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.14.3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14.3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 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: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" 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/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /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/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo" LINGUAS="sv de" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/portage_tmpdir" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl ada alsa apache2 apm arts artworkextra athena audiofile authdaemond avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 canna cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dga dhcp directfb divx4linux dnd dts dvb dvd dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg firebird flac foomaticdb fortran freetype freewnn gcj gd gdbm ggi gif gimpprint glut gmp gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal howl httpd i8x0 idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack java javascript jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal kerberos krb4 lcms ldap leim lesstif libcaca libg++ libwww live lua lzo mad matroska mhash mikmod mmx mng mozilla mp3 mpeg mule mysql nas ncurses neXt network nls nsplugin odbc ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcmcia pcre pdflib perl php physfs plotutils png portaudio postgres povray python qt quicktime quotas readline real ruby samba sasl sdl slang slp speex spell sql sqlite sse sse2 ssl stream subversion svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l vcd vda vlm vorbis wifi wmf wxwindows xanim xface xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid xvmc zlib video_cards_radeon linguas_sv linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY # emerge -pv postgresql These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] dev-db/postgresql-8.0.4 [8.0.3] -doc +kerberos +libg++ +nls +pam +perl -pg-hier -pg-intdatetime +python +readline (-selinux) +ssl +tcltk +xml2 +zlib 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB
This problem seems to be gone now. "emerge postgresql" succeeded today. The reason is most likely that the build system was finally able to produce a working glibc yesterday (which had previously failed every time I tried since I first installed Gentoo in 2004-10). So the problem was not in postgresql-8.0.4.ebuild or upstream but in one of the glibc files.
