After installing ffcall: # ls -al /usr/lib/libavcall* /usr/lib/libcall* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2242 Sep 18 09:30 /usr/lib/libavcall.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 18 09:30 /usr/lib/libavcall.la -> ../libavcall.la -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5764 Sep 18 09:30 /usr/lib/libcallback.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Sep 18 09:30 /usr/lib/libcallback.la -> ../libcallback.la But those ../lib*.la don't exist. From the install log: --- /usr/lib/ >>> /usr/lib/libcallback.a >>> /usr/lib/libavcall.a >>> /usr/lib/libvacall.a >>> /usr/lib/libtrampoline.a >>> /usr/lib/libcallback.la -> ../libcallback.la >>> /usr/lib/libavcall.la -> ../libavcall.la >>> Safely unmerging already-installed instance... emerge --info Portage 2.1.2_pre1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1/vanilla, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17.11 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17.11 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 Last Sync: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:00:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: 2.0.0_rc2-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.1-r1, 2.0.28-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r3 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 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: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe" 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/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protection distcc distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://194.117.143.71/mirrors/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j1" 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/portage /usr/local/ag-portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acpi alsa apache2 arts audiofile avahi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cjk cli crypt cups curl dbus dga dlloader dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emacs emboss encode esd exif expat f77 faad fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fortran gcj gd gdbm gif ginac glut gmp gnome gnustep gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal idn imagemagick input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog jack java jpeg kernel_linux lcms leim libcaca libg++ lirc lirc_devices_realmagic live mad matroska mikmod mmx mng mono mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg openal opengl oss pam pcre pdf perl plotutils png ppds pppd python qhull qt3 quicktime radeon readline reflection rtc samba scanner sdk sdl session slang speex spell spl sqlite sse ssl svg tcl tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU v4l v4l2 vcd video_cards_fbdev video_cards_i810 video_cards_mach64 video_cards_radeon video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows xinerama xml xorg xosd xv xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
please test -r1
Looks OK with -r1, reopen if you encounter this behavior again
