This is the output: chmod: /root/.gnome2_private emerge --info: Portage 2.1_pre7-r4 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r1, 2.6.16-suspend2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-suspend2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 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: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -mtune=pentium-m -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -mtune=pentium-m -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg candy ccache collision-protect confcache digest distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict test" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="gl_ES.UTF-8" LC_ALL="gl_ES.UTF-8" LINGUAS="gl es" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage-gentopia /usr/local/portage-bmg /usr/local/portage-xgl /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi alsa apm avahi avi bash-completion beagle bzip2 cairo cli ctype cups dba dbus dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd exif expat fastbuild fbcon firefox foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gstreamer10 gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal imlib isdnlog jpeg lcms libg++ libnotify libwww mad memlimit mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl pcre pdf pdflib pic png posix pppd quicktime readline samba session simplexml soap sockets spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg test tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vorbis xml xsl xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_mouse input_devices_keyboard input_devices_synaptics kernel_linux linguas_gl linguas_es userland_GNU video_cards_ati video_cards_fglrx" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS
i can't reproduce this. can you attach a full build log + config.log?