The following page explains that stripping should be done by portage, and not by package Makefile. It also explains there must be no "-s" flag at LDFLAGS. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml#doc_chap1_sect3 Look at media-gfx/duhdraw-2.8.12 ebuild: src_compile() { emake CC="$(tc-getCC) -s ${CFLAGS}" || die } It explicitly and unconditionally adds "-s" flag to compiling phase. Proposed solution: emake CC="$(tc-getCC) ${CFLAGS}" || die "emake failed" Even though duhdraw has not been modified in years and not stripping is only useful for developers, I thought it was worth mentioning this. Maybe there are other ebuilds with this "bug"?
Fixed in CVS, thanks for reporting