To emerge kdemultimedia 3.4.3 on my system verious dependencies had to resolved. [ebuild U ] media-libs/flac-1.1.2-r3 [1.1.0] -3dnow -debug -doc +ogg* +sse +xmms 1,484 kB [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-flac-0.8.11 0 kB [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-vorbis-0.8.11 0 kB [ebuild U ] media-libs/libmad-0.15.1b [0.15.0b-r1] -debug 490 kB [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.8.11 0 kB [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-ogg-0.8.11 0 kB [ebuild NS ] kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.4.3 +alsa +arts +audiofile -debug +encode +flac +gstreamer -jack -kdeenablefinal +mp3 -musicbrainz -speex -theora +vorbis +xine -xinerama 5,366 kB These ebuilds have been emerged succesfully: >>> dev-libs/liboil-0.3.6 >>> media-libs/gstreamer-0.8.11 >>> media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11 While emerging "gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.11" I got this error message: /usr/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-nm -B libgstalsa_la-gstalsaplugin.lo libgstalsa_la-gstalsa.lo libgstalsa_la-gstalsaclock.lo libgstalsa_la-gstalsasink.lo libgstalsa_la-gstalsasrc.lo l ibgstalsa_la-gstalsamixer.lo libgstalsa_la-gstalsamixertrack.lo libgstalsa_la-gstalsamixeroptions.lo | sed -n -e 's/^.*[ ]\([ABCDGISTW][ABCDGISTW]*\)[ ][ ]*\(\)\([_ A-Za-z][_A-Za-z0-9]*\)$/\1 \2\3 \3/p' | sed 's/.* //' | sort | uniq > .libs/libgstalsa.exp egrep -e "_*(gst_|Gst|GST_).*" ".libs/libgstalsa.exp" > ".libs/libgstalsa.expT" mv -f ".libs/libgstalsa.expT" ".libs/libgstalsa.exp" gcc "{ global:" > .libs/libgstalsa.ver gcc: { global:: No such file or directory gcc: no input files make: *** [libgstalsa.la] Error 1 !!! ERROR: media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.11 failed. !!! Function gst-plugins_src_compile, Line 173, Exitcode 2 !!! compile failure !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. These alsa related ebuilds are installed on my system: * media-libs/alsa-lib Latest version installed: 1.0.7 * media-libs/alsa-oss Latest version installed: 1.0.7 * media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa Latest version installed: 0.8.10 * media-sound/alsa-driver Latest version installed: 1.0.8_rc1 * media-sound/alsa-headers Latest version installed: 1.0.8_rc1 * media-sound/alsa-tools Latest version installed: 1.0.7 * media-sound/alsa-utils Latest version installed: 1.0.6 Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 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: 2.14.90.0.8-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.3-r3 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /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/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp6.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="de_DE@euro" LINGUAS="de" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acl alsa apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl eds emboss encode esd ethereal expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile idn imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad mhash mikmod mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS
Upgrade you system - e.g. your glibc, gcc, binutils or libtool are not even in portage any more! Reopen if it still fails then.