This failure has been present for at least 2 months now, but I thought I could get past it on my previous system. That system failed and I am now rebuilding from scratch, but this error remains. (I therefore cannot upgrade glibc beyond 2.3.4.20041102-r1, which is on the LiveCD.) I also cannot seem to paste text into a form in Links2, so I will have to put the error text and "emerge --info" as an attachment. I apologize for the breach of etiquette, but this is all I can manage at the moment. :( The failure is in ../sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/fpu/s_copysign.S:25: Error: missing name
Created attachment 78303 [details] Error text & emerge --info output I know that the guidelines say to put this in the bug comments, but Links2 does not allow pasting into forms. I hope this is better than nothing, and I will add it to a comment later assuming I can get a working system eventually.
GLIBC is known not to build with hardened on PPC, use a non-hardened compiler. Also, your CFLAGS have some issues, you should never use -fsigned-char. Try it again with these changes and reopen the bug if you're still having problems. Good luck!
