Installed kde-3.5.2 recently, and I'm upgrading qt to 4.1.2: emerge --info: Portage 2.0.54-r2 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present] dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 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-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -m3dnow -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -fprefetch-loop-arrays -maccumulate-outgoing-args" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -m3dnow -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -fprefetch-loop-arrays -maccumulate-outgoing-args" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.zie.pg.gda.pl http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl http://src.gentoo.pl" LANG="pl_PL" LC_ALL="pl_PL" LINGUAS="pl" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex 3dnowext X aac aalib acl acpi alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt cups curl directfb dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gmp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile idn ieee1394 imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg junit kde lcms libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmx2 mmxext mng mp3 mpeg musepack ncurses nls nojoystick nvidia objc ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl pic png pppd python qt quicktime readline recode reflection ruby samba sdl session slang spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl stream svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis wifi win32codecs xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xorg xosd xv xvid zlib video_cards_nvidia linguas_pl userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS emerge -v qt: ... make[6]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/qt-4.1.2/work/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.1.2/tools/designer/src/plugins/widgets' rm -f libqt3supportwidgets_debug.so g++ -shared -o libqt3supportwidgets_debug.so .obj/debug-shared/qt3supportwidgets.o .obj/debug-shared/q3buttongroup_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/q3frame_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/q3groupbox_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/q3iconview_extrainfo.o .obj/debug-shared/q3iconview_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/q3listview_extrainfo.o .obj/debug-shared/q3listview_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/q3mainwindow_container.o .obj/debug-shared/q3mainwindow_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/q3toolbar_extrainfo.o .obj/debug-shared/q3toolbar_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/q3widgetstack_container.o .obj/debug-shared/q3widgetstack_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/qdesigner_q3widgetstack.o .obj/debug-shared/q3wizard_container.o .obj/debug-shared/q3wizard_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/q3listbox_extrainfo.o .obj/debug-shared/q3listbox_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/q3table_extrainfo.o .obj/debug-shared/q3table_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/q3textedit_extrainfo.o .obj/debug-shared/q3textedit_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_q3buttongroup_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_q3frame_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_q3groupbox_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_q3iconview_extrainfo.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_q3iconview_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_q3listview_extrainfo.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_q3listview_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_q3mainwindow_container.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_q3mainwindow_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_q3toolbar_extrainfo.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_q3toolbar_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_q3widgetstack_container.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_q3widgetstack_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_qdesigner_q3widgetstack_p.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_q3wizard_container.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_q3wizard_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_q3listbox_extrainfo.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_q3listbox_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_q3table_extrainfo.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_q3table_plugin.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_q3textedit_extrainfo.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_q3textedit_plugin.o -L/var/tmp/portage/qt-4.1.2/work/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.1.2/lib -lQt3Support_debug -L/var/tmp/portage/qt-4.1.2/work/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.1.2/lib -lQtSql_debug -L/usr/lib -lQtNetwork_debug -lQtXml_debug -lQtGui_debug -lpng -lSM -lICE -lXi -lXrender -lXrandr -lXcursor -lXinerama -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lXext -lX11 -lQtCore_debug -lz -lm -lQtDesigner_debug -lpthread -ldl collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[6]: *** [../../../../../plugins/designer/libqt3supportwidgets_debug.so] Error 1 make[6]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/qt-4.1.2/work/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.1.2/tools/designer/src/plugins/widgets' make[5]: *** [debug-all] Error 2 make[5]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/qt-4.1.2/work/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.1.2/tools/designer/src/plugins/widgets' make[4]: *** [sub-widgets-all-ordered] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/qt-4.1.2/work/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.1.2/tools/designer/src/plugins' make[3]: *** [sub-plugins-all-ordered] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/qt-4.1.2/work/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.1.2/tools/designer/src' make[2]: *** [sub-src-all-ordered] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/qt-4.1.2/work/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.1.2/tools/designer' make[1]: *** [sub-designer-all-ordered] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/qt-4.1.2/work/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.1.2/tools' make: *** [sub-tools-all-ordered] Error 2 !!! ERROR: x11-libs/qt-4.1.2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 152, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message)
looks to me just like a random compilation error. If you remove your tmpdir and try again, does it fail in the same spot?
It worked! Still don't know where a random compilation error came from, but anyway, thanks a lot Caleb and sorry to take your time.