Emerging dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2.1.20 failed with the following output: ----- i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -shared cram.lo crammd5_init.lo plugin_common.lo -lresolv -lc -Wl,-soname -Wl,libcrammd5.so.2 -o .libs/libcrammd5.so.2.0.20 ln: `plugin_common.o': File exists make[2]: *** [libdigestmd5.la] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... (cd .libs && rm -f libcrammd5.so.2 && ln -s libcrammd5.so.2.0.20 libcrammd5.so.2) (cd .libs && rm -f libcrammd5.so && ln -s libcrammd5.so.2.0.20 libcrammd5.so) creating libcrammd5.la (cd .libs && rm -f libcrammd5.la && ln -s ../libcrammd5.la libcrammd5.la) make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/cyrus-sasl-2.1.20/work/cyrus-sasl-2.1.20/plugins' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/cyrus-sasl-2.1.20/work/cyrus-sasl-2.1.20' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2.1.20 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1532: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 929: Called src_compile cyrus-sasl-2.1.20.ebuild, line 161: Called die !!! compile problem !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. ----- emerge --info: ----- Portage 2.1_pre7-r5 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.11 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 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: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="C" LC_ALL="C" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm automount avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt ctype cups dba dri dvd eds emboss encode esd expat fastbuild foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 hardened imlib isdnlog jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad memlimit mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png posix pppd python qt quicktime readline samba sdl session simplexml soap sockets spell spl ssl tcpd tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vorbis xml xmms xsl xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_via" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY -----
dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-r2 seems to fix this problem.