installed clean Gentoo 1.4rc4 system, attempt to install XFree. emerge fails with following error. installing in programs/xkbcomp/compat... make[4]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.3.0-r2/work/xc/programs/xkbcomp/compat' rm -f compat.dir LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../../exports/lib ../../../exports/bin/xkbcomp -lfhlpR -o compat.dir '*' /bin/sh: line 1: ../../../exports/bin/xkbcomp: No such file or directory make[4]: *** [compat.dir] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.3.0-r2/work/xc/programs/xkbcomp/compat' make[3]: *** [install] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.3.0-r2/work/xc/programs/xkbcomp' make[2]: *** [install] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.3.0-r2/work/xc/programs' make[1]: *** [install] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.3.0-r2/work/xc' make: *** [install] Error 2 !!! ERROR: x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r2 failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 475, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) emerge -pv xfree sez: [ebuild N ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r2 -3dfx -sse +mmx +3dnow +xml +truetype +nls -cjk -doc emerge info sez: Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss apm arts cups gif gtk imlib java jpeg kde gnome libg++ libwww mikmod mmx motif ncurses nls oggvorbis pdflib png qt sdl spell svga truetype xml2 xmms zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python X opengl xv xml fbcon 3dnow quicktime avi mpeg dvd crypt encode" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=athlon-tbird -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=athlon-tbird -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install stage3 gentoo 1.4rc4 2. configure make.conf for host 3. emerge xfree Actual Results: see above errors
however, this worked fine, and i've now pinned this version in my /var/cache/edb/world file emerge '=xfree-4.2.1-r2'
i'm pretty sure this is a problem with hardware. that box had all kinds of trouble (consistent compiler segfaults) building a lot of things. on another machine, all is swimming.