if you have in MAKEOPTS -j5 and more jobs compilation can failed: i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wall -c -I/home/root/portage.tmp/portage/netpbm-10.33/work/netpbm-10.33/lib -I. -Iimportinc -DNDEBUG -Os -march=i486 -fomit-frame-pointer -fPIC \ -o libpbm2.o libpbm2.c i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wall -c -I/home/root/portage.tmp/portage/netpbm-10.33/work/netpbm-10.33/lib -I. -Iimportinc -DNDEBUG -Os -march=i486 -fomit-frame-pointer -fPIC \ -o libpbm3.o libpbm3.c nstring.c: In function `asprintfN': nstring.c:953: warning: 'retval' might be used uninitialized in this function shhopt.c: In function `parse_long_option': shhopt.c:697: warning: 'arg' might be used uninitialized in this function i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wall -c -I/home/root/portage.tmp/portage/netpbm-10.33/work/netpbm-10.33/lib -I. -Iimportinc -DNDEBUG -Os -march=i486 -fomit-frame-pointer -fPIC \ -o libpbmfont.o libpbmfont.c i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wall -c -I/home/root/portage.tmp/portage/netpbm-10.33/work/netpbm-10.33/lib -I. -Iimportinc -DNDEBUG -Os -march=i486 -fomit-frame-pointer -fPIC \ -o libpgm1.o libpgm1.c make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/root/portage.tmp/portage/netpbm-10.33/work/netpbm-10.33/lib/util' i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wall -c -I/home/root/portage.tmp/portage/netpbm-10.33/work/netpbm-10.33/lib -I. -Iimportinc -DNDEBUG -Os -march=i486 -fomit-frame-pointer -fPIC \ -o libpgm2.o libpgm2.c make[2]: *** [shhopt.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/root/portage.tmp/portage/netpbm-10.33/work/netpbm-10.33/lib/util' make[1]: *** [util/shhopt.o] Error 2 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... libpm.c: In function `pm_make_tmpfile': libpm.c:727: warning: 'fileP' might be used uninitialized in this function make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/root/portage.tmp/portage/netpbm-10.33/work/netpbm-10.33/lib' make: *** [lib/all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: media-libs/netpbm-10.33 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1526: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 923: Called src_compile netpbm-10.33.ebuild, line 90: Called die !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
10.34 should fix this
FYI, i got this issue with 10.35.0. MAKEOPTS=-j1 was used to complete the merge. Portage 2.1.2_pre2-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17.13-reiser4-3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17.13-reiser4-3 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:50:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/NX/etc /usr/NX/home /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://156.56.247.193/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X alsa am berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr chroot cli crypt dbus dlloader dri dv dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kernel_linux libg++ linguas_en mad mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds pppd pwdb python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse ssl tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_nv vorbis win32codecs xml xmms xorg xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS