While performing the initial emerge system on my alpha system db-4.2.52p4 failed at the configure stage, complaining that kill was missing, and indeed there was no kill installed; when I installed procps the error disappeared and I was able to install db successfully. livecd / # emerge info Portage 2.0.54-r2 (default-linux/alpha/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.15.3 alpha) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15.3 alpha EV5 Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present] dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: [Not Present] sys-devel/automake: [Not Present] sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.12-r6 sys-devel/libtool: [Not Present] virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="alpha ~alpha" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-pipe -O3 -mcpu=ev5 -mno-soft-float -mfp-regs -mfloat-ieee -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -fsched-interblock -fsched-spec-load -fsched-spec-load-dangerous -fsched2-use-superblocks -frename-registers -fno-math-errno -funsafe-math-optimizations -fno-trapping-math -ftracer -funit-at-a-time -funroll-loops -funswitch-loops -ffunction-sections -fprefetch-loop-arrays -fbranch-target-load-optimize2 -fmerge-all-constants -ffast-math -fkeep-inline-functions" CHOST="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-pipe -O3 -mcpu=ev5 -mno-soft-float -mfp-regs -mfloat-ieee -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -fsched-interblock -fsched-spec-load -fsched-spec-load-dangerous -fsched2-use-superblocks -frename-registers -fno-math-errno -funsafe-math-optimizations -fno-trapping-math -ftracer -funit-at-a-time -funroll-loops -funswitch-loops -ffunction-sections -fprefetch-loop-arrays -fbranch-target-load-optimize2 -fmerge-all-constants -ffast-math -fkeep-inline-functions" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig confcache distlocks maketest sandbox sfperms strict test" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="alpha X X509 Xaw3d aalib acl alsa aotuv apache2 arts bashlogger berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 chroot cjk cli crypt directfb dmx doc eds emacs encode fbcon foomaticdb fortran gcj gdbm ggi gif glitz gmp gnome gnutls gpm gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 hpn imlib immqt ipv6 isdnlog ithreads jpeg justify kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kdrive ldap leim lesstif libcaca libedit libg++ libwww lua mad mailwrapper mikmod motif mp3 mpeg nas ncurses neXt netboot nis nls noflagstrip nptl nptlonly objc ocaml ogg oss overlays pam pam_chroot pam_console pcre pdflib perl perlsuid php png postgres pppd pwdb python qt quicktime readline reflection rle ruby samba sasl sdl session sip skey slang slp spell spl ssl symlink sysfs tcltk tcpd test tetex threads tiff toolbar truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts ucs2 udev unicode vorbis xinerama xinetd xml xmms xorg xprint xv zlib video_cards_vga input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
sys-process/procps is in profiles/base/packages, i.e. - installed on every Gentoo system. If you unmerged it, it's not an ebuild bug.
And - BTW, don't report *any* compile-related bugs whatsoever with those ridiculous C[XX]FLAGS you are using. Your system is pretty broken.
I didn't unmerge it, the problem occurred during the emerge system stage of install, before it had been installed. And yes, I know not to file anything I can't reproduce with just -O2.
