this one is a nagging one for me. Emergeing sword repeatedly fails with the same error as below: il.o osisheadings.o osisfootnotes.o osishtmlhref.o osiswebif.o osismorph.o osisstrongs.o osisplain.o osisrtf.o osislemma.o osisredletterwords.o osisscripref.o osisvariants.o osiswordjs.o osismorphsegmentation.o gbfhtml.o gbfhtmlhref.o gbfwebif.o gbfplain.o gbfrtf.o gbfstrongs.o gbffootnotes.o gbfheadings.o gbfredletterwords.o gbfmorph.o gbfwordjs.o thmlstrongs.o thmlfootnotes.o thmlheadings.o thmlmorph.o thmllemma.o thmlscripref.o thmlvariants.o thmlgbf.o thmlrtf.o thmlhtml.o thmlhtmlhref.o thmlwebif.o thmlwordjs.o gbfthml.o gbfosis.o thmlosis.o thmlplain.o osisosis.o rtfhtml.o plainfootnotes.o plainhtml.o greeklexattribs.o unicodertf.o papyriplain.o teiplain.o teirtf.o swgenbook.o rawgenbook.o swtext.o rawtext.o ztext.o swcom.o rawcom.o rawfiles.o zcom.o hrefcom.o swld.o rawld.o rawld4.o zld.o flatapi.o i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib .libs/libsword.a creating libsword.la (cd .libs && rm -f libsword.la && ln -s ../libsword.la libsword.la) make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-text/sword-1.5.9/work/sword-1.5.9/lib' Making all in . make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-text/sword-1.5.9/work/sword-1.5.9' if i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I ./include -O2 -DCURLAVAILABLE -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -pipe -O3 -fweb -frename-registers -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -MT buildtest.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/buildtest.Tpo" -c -o buildtest.o buildtest.cpp; \ then mv -f ".deps/buildtest.Tpo" ".deps/buildtest.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/buildtest.Tpo"; exit 1; fi /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -O2 -DCURLAVAILABLE -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -pipe -O3 -fweb -frename-registers -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -Wl,-O1 -o buildtest buildtest.o ./lib/libsword.la -lz mkdir .libs i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -O2 -DCURLAVAILABLE -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -pipe -O3 -fweb -frename-registers -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -Wl,-O1 -o .libs/buildtest buildtest.o ./lib/.libs/libsword.so -L/usr/lib /usr/lib/libcurl.so -lssl -lcrypto -ldl -lz buildtest.o: In function `main': buildtest.cpp:(.text+0x144): undefined reference to `sword::VerseKey::setText(char const*)' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [buildtest] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-text/sword-1.5.9/work/sword-1.5.9' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 !!! ERROR: app-text/sword-1.5.9 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1568: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 937: Called src_compile sword-1.5.9.ebuild, line 32: Called die !!! make failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. here's my emerge --info Portage 2.1.2_rc1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:50:02 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r3, 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: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -pipe -O3 -fweb -frename-registers -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer" 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/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -pipe -O3 -fweb -frename-registers -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j3" 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi alsa apache2 apm berkdb bitmap-fonts cli cracklib crypt cups dlloader dri eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 iconv imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kernel_linux libg++ libwww linguas_en_GB lirc_devices_mceusb2 mad mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev userland_GNU video_cards_ati video_cards_fglrx video_cards_vesa vorbis xml xorg xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Reopen if you can reproduce with *sane* C[XX]FLAGS.
