`emerge =sys-libs/db-4.2.52_p4` with FEATURES="test" shows about 94 failures on alpha. I'll attach the test log (ALL.OUT) to this bug. # egrep -c '^FAIL' ALL.OUT 94 # emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre10-r2 (default-linux/alpha/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.14.2 alpha) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14.2 alpha EV56 Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre18 distcc 2.18.3 alpha-unknown-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r1 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] 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-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="alpha ~alpha" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mieee -pipe -O2 -mcpu=ev56" CHOST="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mieee -pipe -O2 -mcpu=ev56" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks metadata-transfer sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j10" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="alpha X alsa apache2 arts berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt cups dri eds encode esd foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Created attachment 86331 [details] test results log Here is the test log. I know attaching binary stuff is a "no, no", but I'm attaching it bzip2'd as the file is >3MB plaintext and bugzilla rejects attachments >1MB.
Some of the tests require direct IO, but that is not supported on your system. Failing would then be expected. Most errors are in the return value to printlog. It seems that something is wrong there. It's not clear to me what causes them.
Maybe I'm wrong here but many libs/programs rely on db, right? so do they all not work? Or is there something special in, say, openldap that makes it break here?
Could you also try db-4.3 or db-4.4. While the latter one is masked, they are stable and only have (unlikely) upgrade path problems (probably not the biggest issue on alpha)
This is really old, if it's still a major issue that the breakage actually causes other stuff to break, open a new bug please.
