At one point I was using -Bdirect linking, but I have since removed it, and rebuilt my system. With this new KDE release kuickshow tries to use -Bdirect linking for some unknown reason, and fails since binutils doesn't have -Bdirect support. --clip-- /bin/sh ../../libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=link x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -O2 -march=k8 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb -frename-registers -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-hash-style=both -o libkdeinit_kuickshow.la -rpath /usr/kde/3.5/lib64 -no-undefined -avoid-version -L/usr/kde/3.5/lib64 -L/usr/qt/3/lib64 -L/usr/lib64 libkdeinit_kuickshow_la.all_cpp.lo -lkdeprint -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,-Bdirect -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-hashvals -Wl,-zdynsort -lImlib -ljpeg -ltiff -lgif -lpng -lz -lm -lSM -lICE -lXext -lX11 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: unrecognized option '-Bdirect' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: use the --help option for usage information collect2: ld returned 1 exit status emerge --info Portage 2.1.2_pre2-r9 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.18-ck1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-ck1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:20:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17.50.0.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb -frename-registers" CHOST="x86_64-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="" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb -frename-registers -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache digest distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" LC_ALL="en_CA.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-hash-style=both" LINGUAS="en en_GB en_CA" 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/portage/local/layman/nxsty" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 16bit 7zip S3TC X a52 akode alsa amarok ao asf audiofile autoreplace bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo ccache cdio cdparanoia cdr chroot crypt css cups curl curlwrappers dbus dlloader dpms dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc emul-linux-x86 encode escreen exif fam fat ffmpeg fftw firefox flac flash foomaticdb gd gdbm gif glibc-omitfp glitz gmp gnuplot gpgme gphoto2 gs gtk gtk2 hal history idea ifp imagemagick imap imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_joystick input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse irc isdnlog jabber javascript jingle joystick jp2 jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kdepim kernel_linux kig-scripting lame latex ldap libg++ libsamplerate libusb libwww linguas_en linguas_en_CA linguas_en_GB live lm_sensors lzo mad matroska menubar mime ming mmap mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4 mplayer msn ncurses net network nls no-old-linux no_wxgtk1 nocd nodrm nomac nomalloccheck nowin nowlistening nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pda pdf perl pertty pic plotutils png ppds pppd python qt3 quicktime rar readline reflection risky rt2500pci rtc samba sasl sblive sdl session sftplogging sharedmem slang smime sndfile sox speex spell ssl svg sysfs szip tetex texteffect theora threads tidy tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU userlocales uudeview video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia vorbis wmf x264 xanim xcomposite xine xinerama xorg xv xvid xvmc yv12 zip zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Rebuild imlib. And -Bdirect is not supported anyway.