bjam -q ${OPTIONS} --prefix="${D}/usr" --layout=system || die "building regression test helpers failed"; I lost further information than that, sorry. dev-zero told I should file a bug regardless so he remembers. This snippet seems to be ran from src_compile if FEATURES=test is on.
Looks like the problem I got. Boost fails about half way through the build. Here's how it finishes: ...failed gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/serialization/build/gcc-4.2/gentoorelease/link-static/threading-multi/codecvt_null.o... gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/serialization/build/gcc-4.2/gentoorelease/link-static/threading-multi/binary_iarchive.o ...failed updating 1 target... ...updated 229 targets... * * ERROR: dev-libs/boost-1.35.0-r1 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 3017: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * bjam ${NUMJOBS} -q ${OPTIONS} threading=single,multi link=shared,static runtime-link=shared,static --prefix="${D}/usr" --layout=system || die "building boost failed"; * The die message: * building boost failed And my "emerge --info" Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/ppc/ppc32/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.2, glibc-2.7-r2, 2.6.24-gentoo-r2 ppc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r2 ppc 740/750 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:45:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-lang/python: 2.5.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.12 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.62 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.24 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc ~ppc" CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mcpu=750 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=750 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/home/randk/.portage-distfiles/" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/home/randk/.portage-packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/randk/.portage-tmp/" PORTDIR="/home/randk/.portage/" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /home/randk/.portage-local" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl alsa apm ati bash-completion berkdb cairo cdrom cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri emboss encode fam firefox freetype ftp gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kerberos ldap mad midi mikmod mime mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses networkmanager nls nodocs nptl nptlonly ogg openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png ppc pppd python quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis wifi xcb xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="powermac" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul 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" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="mach64" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
emerged system and boost built to fix my error.
Old. We're now focusing on boost-1.4{1,2}.0. Feel free to open something new if you have still have tests failing there.