if i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I./lua -I./sqlite -DNDEBUG -DBOOST_DISABLE_THREADS -DBOOST_SP_DISABLE_THREADS -mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fno-stack-protector-all -fno-stack-protector -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-omit-frame-pointer -Wall -W -Wno-unused -fno-strict-aliasing -MT mtn-app_state.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/mtn-app_state.Tpo" -c -o mtn-app_state.o `test -f 'app_state.cc' || echo './'`app_state.cc; \ then mv -f ".deps/mtn-app_state.Tpo" ".deps/mtn-app_state.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/mtn-app_state.Tpo"; exit 1; fi In file included from app_state.hh:25, from app_state.cc:23: options.hh: In member function `const T& option::option<T>::get(const boost::program_options::variables_map&)': options.hh:45: error: syntax error before `;' token make[2]: *** [mtn-app_state.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/monotone-0.29/work/monotone-0.29' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/monotone-0.29/work/monotone-0.29' make: *** [all] Error 2 Perhaps I need newer gcc, but in that case monotone should depend on it. Portage 2.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 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-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-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="-mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/mail/dspam /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/run/dspam" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/share/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig candy ccache confcache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/gentoo/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/share/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/share/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X aac aalib alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bzip2 calendar cdparanoia cdr cli crypt ctype cups curl dlloader doc dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode fb fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm ggi gif gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg latex libcaca libg++ libwww live lm_sensors lua mad matroska mbox mikmod mime mmap mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl opie oss pam pcre pda pdflib perl perlsuid png posix pppd procmail profile python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real recode reflection rtc sdl session shared sharedmem slang sockets speex spell spl sqlite srvdir sse ssl tcltk tcpd tetex theora tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vcd vorbis win32codecs wmf xinetd xml xmms xorg xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ati video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i740 video_cards_i810 video_cards_imstt video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic video_cards_nsc video_cards_nv video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
> Perhaps I need newer gcc, but in that case monotone should depend on it. Won't help as you can have multiple gcc installed at the same time, hence satisfying dependencies, without actually using the right one. I did a compile time check for gcc-3.3 and suggest using a later version Thanks Petr