gaim 0.62 fails to compile with undefined references in perl.o and DynaLoader.o. threads is not in my USE variable. this is similar to bug 19568. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -u gaim 2. ebuild stops with undefined references to several perl related files Actual Results: the compile of gaim bails out Expected Results: gaim should compile Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= 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="/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /etc /var/qmail/ control /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/ge neric/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/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="/home/matt/ebuilds" USE="x86 oss apm libg++ mikmod nls slang 3dnow aalib acl alsa arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups curl dga directfb doc dvd emacs encode esd ethereal evo fbcon gb gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib innodb java jpeg kde lcms junit libgda libwww maildir -mbox mmx motif mozilla mpeg mule mysql ncurses odbc oggvorbis opengl pam pda pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slp snmp spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype usb wmf X Xaw3d xface xml xml2 xmms xv zlib" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
Created attachment 11258 [details] log of linking errors
this also happens with gaim-0.61 as well, but the linker messages are different from those in bug 19568
what version of perl do you have installed? Try gaim-0.63 (which I just committed) if you are bored.
the emerge of gaim 0.63 worked. marking as FIXED.
*** Bug 274172 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***