emerging python-2.4.3-r4 fails with a segmentation fault. 2.4.3-r4 is already installed on my system, but i would like to remerge it with useflag tk. however i can also not emerge it without tk set. this are the useflags i used: berkdb doc gdbm ncurses readline ssl +/-tk -bootstrap -build -ipv6 -nocxx -ucs2 i checked in the 2006.1 profile i noted that there ipv6 was set unlike in my configuration. when i added ipv6 i was able to compile python. output -tk: ---------- [...] *** WARNING: renaming "dbm" since importing it failed: build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/dbm.so: undefined symbol: dbm_firstkey [...] running build_ext make: *** [sharedinstall] Segmentation fault [...] output +tk: ---------- [...] *** WARNING: renaming "dbm" since importing it failed: build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/dbm.so: undefined symbol: dbm_firstkey running build_scripts running install_lib [...] changing mode of //var/tmp/portage/python-2.4.3-r4/image/usr/bin/smtpd.py to 755 make: *** [sharedinstall] Segmentation fault [...] $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.1-r2 (!/usr/local/artavatar-own-overlay/profiles/x86/artavatar/desktop/, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 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, 2.60 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: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -msse3 -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/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -msse3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digest autoconfig ccache digest distcc distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/" LINGUAS="en" 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/artavatar-overlay /usr/local/artavatar-emacs-overlay /usr/local/artavatar-own-overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa alsa_cards_intel8x0 apm bash-completion berkdb bob bzip2 crypt cups doc dri elibc_glibc emacs gdbm gif gpm input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse jpeg kernel_linux ldap linguas_en mmx ncurses nls opengl pam pic png python readline session spell sse ssl tiff truetype udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia xorg zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Can't reproduce this with 2.4.4.