i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -shared .libs/icsimporter.o -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/home/alextz/portage/portage/mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/e-util/.libs -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/home/alextz/portage/portage/mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/mail/.libs -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib/evolution/2.8 -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib/evolution/2.8/components -L/home/alextz/portage/portage/mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/e-util/.libs -L/home/alextz/portage/portage/mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/smime/lib/.libs -L/home/alextz/portage/portage/mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/a11y/.libs -L/home/alextz/portage/portage/mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/a11y/widgets/.libs -L/home/alextz/portage/portage/mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/widgets/table/.libs -L/home/alextz/portage/portage/mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/widgets/text/.libs -L/home/alextz/portage/portage/mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/shell/.libs -L/home/alextz/portage/portage/mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/smime/gui/.libs -L/home/alextz/portage/portage/mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/filter/.libs -L/home/alextz/portage/portage/mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/mail/importers/.libs -L/home/alextz/portage/portage/mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/addressbook/gui/contact-editor/.libs -L/home/alextz/portage/portage/mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/addressbook/util/.libs -L/home/alextz/portage/portage/mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/addressbook/gui/contact-list-editor/.libs -L/home/alextz/portage/portage/mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/widgets/menus/.libs -L/home/alextz/portage/portage/mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/widgets/misc/.libs -L/usr/lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../ -L/usr/lib/lib -L/usr/lib/nss -L/usr/lib/nspr ../../e-util/.libs/libeutil.so ../../mail/.libs/libevolution-mail.so /usr/lib/libcamel-1.2.so /usr/lib/libcamel-provider-1.2.so /usr/lib/libgtkhtml-3.8.so /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so /usr/lib/libSM.so /usr/lib/libICE.so /usr/lib/libgnomeprintui-2-2.so /usr/lib/libbonoboui-2.so /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so /usr/lib/libgnomeprint-2-2.so /usr/lib/libgnomecanvas-2.so /usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.so /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so -lssl3 -lsmime3 -lnss3 -lplds4 -lplc4 -lnspr4 -lpthread /usr/lib/libedataserverui-1.2.so /usr/lib/libglade-2.0.so /usr/lib/libebook-1.2.so /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so /usr/lib/libcairo.so /usr/lib/libgnome-2.so /usr/lib/libpopt.so /usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib/libxml2.so -lz /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so /usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so /usr/lib/libbonobo-activation.so /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so -lm /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -march=athlon-xp -pthread -Wl,--export-dynamic -Wl,-R/usr/lib/nss -Wl,-R/usr/lib/nspr -Wl,-soname -Wl,liborg-gnome-evolution-mail-attachments-import-ics.so -o .libs/liborg-gnome-evolution-mail-attachments-import-ics.so /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: BFD 2.16.1 assertion fail /home/alextz/portage/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1-r3/work/binutils-2.16.1/bfd/elf-strtab.c:223 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: BFD 2.16.1 internal error, aborting at /home/alextz/portage/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1-r3/work/binutils-2.16.1/bfd/elflink.c line 6455 in elf_link_output_extsym /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: Please report this bug. collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [liborg-gnome-evolution-mail-attachments-import-ics.la] Error 1 rm org-gnome-evolution-mail-attachments-import-ics.eplug.in make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/alextz/portage/portage/mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/plugins/import-ics-attachments' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/alextz/portage/portage/mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/plugins' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/alextz/portage/portage/mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: mail-client/evolution-2.8.2.1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1568: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 937: Called src_compile evolution-2.8.2.1.ebuild, line 189: Called gnome2_src_compile gnome2.eclass, line 64: Called die !!! compile failure !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. --> emerge --info Portage 2.1.2_rc2-r3 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:30:06 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] 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: 0.4.2-r1 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: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe " CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe " DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.romnet.org/gentoo/" LINGUAS="en" 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="/home/alextz/portage" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aiglx alsa apache2 asf berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt dbus dlloader dri dvd eds elibc_glibc emboss encode exif firefox flac gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kernel_linux libg++ linguas_en mad mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse ssl stroke svg tcpd threads tidy truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa vorbis win32codecs wmf xml xorg xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
That's an internal error in ld, thus a toolchain issue not a gnome issue, I believe.
try upgrading binutils to 2.17
assuming fixed with binutils-2.18
