I noticed that I was getting a debugging build: gcc -march=k6-2 -mmmx -m3dnow -O1 -pipe -g -DDEBUG -funsigned-char -Wall -I./include -DVERSION=\"2.3.6\" -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DXFS_BIG_FILES=1 -DXFS_BIG_FILESYSTEMS=1 -g -DNDEBUG and decided to look into it (on further investigation I see the second -DNDEBUG, so maybe it wasn't but I did find something interesting. In the ebuild file, if one changes DEBUG=-DNDEBUG to export DEBUG=-DNDEBUG the initial -DDEBUG goes away (see below). Now if someone could tell me how to get rid of the '-g' I'd be all set. gcc -march=k6-2 -mmmx -m3dnow -O1 -pipe -g -DNDEBUG -funsigned-char -Wall -I./include -DVERSION=\"2.3.6\" -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DXFS_BIG_FILES=1 -DXFS_BIG_FILESYSTEMS=1 -g -DNDEBUG
I've fixed in portage, but I have no clue where the -g is coming from on your system, nothing like that here. Thanks for the contribution :)