/bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I./../../Library/src -Os -mtune=pentium4 -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -MT CSLabel.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/CSLabel.Tpo -c -o CSLabel.lo CSLabel.c i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I./../../Library/src -Os -mtune=pentium4 -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -MT CSLabel.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/CSLabel.Tpo -c CSLabel.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/CSLabel.o i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I./../../Library/src -Os -mtune=pentium4 -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -MT CSLabel.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/CSLabel.Tpo -c CSLabel.c -o CSLabel.o >/dev/null 2>&1 make[5]: *** [CSLabel.lo] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r7/work/w3c-libwww-5.4.0/PICS-client/src' make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r7/work/w3c-libwww-5.4.0/PICS-client/src' make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r7/work/w3c-libwww-5.4.0/PICS-client/src' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r7/work/w3c-libwww-5.4.0/PICS-client' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r7/work/w3c-libwww-5.4.0' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r7 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1614: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 971: Called qa_call 'src_compile' environment, line 3422: Called src_compile libwww-5.4.0-r7.ebuild, line 55: Called die Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge --info Portage 2.1.2-r9 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686 Transmeta Efficeon(tm) Processor TM8000 Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:30:01 +0000 dev-lang/python: 2.3.4, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 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: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -mtune=pentium4 -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-Os -mtune=pentium4 -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" 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.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acpi alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib cli cpdflib cracklib crypt cscope dga dio directfb divx4linux dlloader doc dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdread eds emboss encode fbcon fftw firefox flac fortran ftp gb gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml iconv icq imagemagick imap imlib isdnlog jack jpeg ladcca lcms lesstif libg++ libwww mad midi mikmod mime mmx mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nis nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pcre pda pdflib perl png pnp posix pppd qt3 qt4 quicktime radeon readline reflection sdl session sndfile speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg sysvipc tcpd tga theora tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vcd vim-with-x vorbis win32codecs x86 xine xml xorg xpm xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics wacom" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Try w/ MAKEOPTS="-j1" and post the errors, there nothing useful in the output you've pasted unfortunately.
When I tried to run it as you said, it compiled just fine. So I guess this was just a one time oddity.