Updated portage, had new version of boost. Build failed very early on after printing error about bjam version. Rebuilt boost-build with same results # bjam --version Boost.Build V2 (Milestone 11) Boost.Jam 03.1.14 [ebuild R ] dev-util/boost-build-1.34.1 0 kB [ebuild N ] dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2 USE="doc -debug -icu -pyste -tools" 0 kB Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.USE="+doc" emerge boost 2. 3. Actual Results: >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2/work/boost_1_34_1 ... * Writing new user-config.jam * Using the following options to build: * release debug-symbols=none optimization=none --user-config=/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2/work/boost_1_34_1/user-config.jam * Building static libraries error: Boost.Jam version 3.1.12 or later required * * ERROR: dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 1701: Called dyn_compile * ebuild.sh, line 1039: Called qa_call 'src_compile' * ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile * boost-1.34.1-r2.ebuild, line 138: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * bjam ${NUMJOBS} -q \ * ${OPTIONS} \ * threading=single,multi \ * runtime-link=${linkoption} link=${linkoption} \ * --prefix="${D}/usr" \ * --layout=system \ * || die "building boost failed" * The die message: * building boost failed Expected Results: successful build # emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r6 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Timestamp of tree: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:46:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r3, 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 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: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ " LANG="C" 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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X a52 aac acl acpi aim alsa amd64 arts bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin cairo cdr cegui cli cpudetection cracklib crypt cups dbus divx doc double-precision dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss emerald emul-linux-x86 encode esd evo examples fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran ftp gdbm gif glitz glut gmedia gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv ieee1394 imagemagick ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg kde kerberos ldap lm_sensors mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap mysql nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg openal opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png posix pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime quotes readline realmedia reflection regex ruby samba sdl session sharedmem sockets spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg swat tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis wma wmp workbench x264 xml xml2 xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" 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" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Turns out problem was my fault. I had a copy of the binary in another folder in path. That was my first guess, but somehow yesterday I missed it(late night). It's compiling fine now. Sorry.
