best explained with output. ~~~ /bin/sh ../../../libtool --silent --mode=compile --tag=CXX g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I./ui -I./../../libkopete -I./../../libkopete/ui -I./ui -I./libkirc -I/usr/kde/3.1/include -I/usr/qt/3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -pedantic -W -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -O3 -march=athlon-tbird -pipe -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -c -o ircservercontact.lo `test -f ircservercontact.cpp || echo './'`ircservercontact.cpp /bin/sh ../../../libtool --silent --mode=compile --tag=CXX g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I./ui -I./../../libkopete -I./../../libkopete/ui -I./ui -I./libkirc -I/usr/kde/3.1/include -I/usr/qt/3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -pedantic -W -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -O3 -march=athlon-tbird -pipe -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -c -o ircconsoleview.lo `test -f ircconsoleview.cpp || echo './'`ircconsoleview.cpp [31;01mACCESS DENIED [0m open_wr: /ircconsoleview.loT ../../../libtool: line 1018: ircconsoleview.loT: Permission denied [31;01mACCESS DENIED [0m open_wr: /ircconsoleview.loT ../../../libtool: line 1097: ircconsoleview.loT: Permission denied mv: cannot stat `ircconsoleview.loT': No such file or directory /bin/sh ../../../libtool --silent --mode=compile --tag=CXX g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I./ui -I./../../libkopete -I./../../libkopete/ui -I./ui -I./libkirc -I/usr/kde/3.1/include -I/usr/qt/3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -pedantic -W -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -O3 -march=athlon-tbird -pipe -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -c -o tabcompleter.lo `test -f tabcompleter.cpp || echo './'`tabcompleter.cpp shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory ../../../libtool: ../../../libtool: No such file or directory make[5]: *** [tabcompleter.lo] Error 127 make[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... [31;01mACCESS DENIED [0m open_wr: /ircservercontact.loT ../../../libtool: line 1018: ircservercontact.loT: Permission denied [31;01mACCESS DENIED [0m open_wr: /ircservercontact.loT ../../../libtool: line 1097: ircservercontact.loT: Permission denied mv: cannot stat `ircservercontact.loT': No such file or directory make[5]: Leaving directory `/data/tmp/portage/kopete-0.5/work/kopete-0.5-1/kopete/protocols/irc' make[4]: Leaving directory `/data/tmp/portage/kopete-0.5/work/kopete-0.5-1/kopete/protocols/irc' make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/data/tmp/portage/kopete-0.5/work/kopete-0.5-1/kopete/protocols' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/data/tmp/portage/kopete-0.5/work/kopete-0.5-1/kopete' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/tmp/portage/kopete-0.5/work/kopete-0.5-1' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: net-im/kopete-0.5 failed. !!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 88, Exitcode 2 !!! died running emake, kde_src_compile:make [31;01m--------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --------------------------- [0m [31;01mLOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-kopete-0.5-19457.log" [0m open_wr: /ircconsoleview.loT open_wr: /ircconsoleview.loT open_wr: /ircservercontact.loT open_wr: /ircservercontact.loT [31;01m-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [0m Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) net-im/kopete-0.5 to / >>> Downloading http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/kopete-0.5-1.tar.gz >>> md5 ;-) kopete-0.5-1.tar.gz
i think maybe my whole system had a temporary, yet major brainfart. seems ok now after logging out and logging back in. closing this as invalid.... bad karma?