Compiling latest freeciv-2.0.8-r1 fails here with the following error: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -mtune=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -pipe -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -o civserver civserver.o ../utility/libcivutility.a ../common/libcivcommon.a ../ai/libcivai.a ../utility/libcivutility.a ./libcivserver.a ../utility/libcivutility.a ../common/libcivcommon.a ../ai/libcivai.a ../utility/libcivutility.a ./libcivserver.a ../utility/libcivutility.a ../common/aicore/libaicore.a ./generator/libgenerator.a -lreadline -lz ./libcivserver.a(gamehand.o): In function `place_starting_unit': gamehand.c:(.text+0x7e0): undefined reference to `sqrt' ../common/libcivcommon.a(combat.o): In function `win_chance': combat.c:(.text+0xc38): undefined reference to `pow' ../common/libcivcommon.a(tech.o): In function `precalc_tech_data': tech.c:(.text+0x6b8): undefined reference to `sqrt' tech.c:(.text+0x720): undefined reference to `sqrt' ../ai/libcivai.a(aiexplorer.o): In function `ai_manage_explorer': aiexplorer.c:(.text+0x344): undefined reference to `log' aiexplorer.c:(.text+0x36c): undefined reference to `log' aiexplorer.c:(.text+0x7f4): undefined reference to `log' ./generator/libgenerator.a(mapgen.o): In function `place_terrain': mapgen.c:(.text+0x25b0): undefined reference to `sqrt' mapgen.c:(.text+0x25ec): undefined reference to `sqrt' ./generator/libgenerator.a(mapgen.o): In function `map_fractal_generate': mapgen.c:(.text+0x4df4): undefined reference to `sqrt' mapgen.c:(.text+0x4e34): undefined reference to `sqrt' mapgen.c:(.text+0x4eac): undefined reference to `sqrt' ./generator/libgenerator.a(mapgen.o):mapgen.c:(.text+0x4ee8): more undefined references to `sqrt' follow collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [civserver] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/freeciv-2.0.8-r1/work/freeciv-2.0.8/server' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/freeciv-2.0.8-r1/work/freeciv-2.0.8/server' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/freeciv-2.0.8-r1/work/freeciv-2.0.8' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: games-strategy/freeciv-2.0.8-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1539: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 939: Called src_compile freeciv-2.0.8-r1.ebuild, line 159: Called die obviously the build is missing -lm here. I'm not sure what's going on right now, wanted to report that anyway. Freeciv-2.0.8-r1 built with: [ebuild U ] games-strategy/freeciv-2.0.8-r1 [2.0.8] USE="alsa gtk nls readline sdl -Xaw3d -dedicated -esd" Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/ppc/ppc32/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-20060623 ppc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-20060623 ppc 7455, altivec supported ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: 0.4.2-r1 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-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache collision-protect confcache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo" LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-1" LINGUAS="de en en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/local /usr/portage/local/layman/science /usr/portage/local/layman/postgresql-experimental" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc X alsa altivec apache2 apm bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdr cli crypt curl dlloader dri dvd eds emboss encode foomaticdb gif gpm gstreamer gtkhtml imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl pam pcre pdflib perl pic png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session slang spell spl ssl svg tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vorbis xinerama xml xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux linguas_de linguas_en linguas_en_GB userland_GNU video_cards_radeon" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I dunno what caused this, still. But after a sync and a emerge -uD world, it worked out fine. Sorry for the noise.