I tried to emerge net-misc/whois and this is what I get: mythdrannor root # emerge whois Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) net-misc/whois-4.6.5 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) whois_4.6.5.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking whois_4.6.5.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/whois-4.6.5/work >>> Source unpacked. perl make_as_del.pl < as_del_list > as_del.h make: *** [as_del.h] Error 139 !!! ERROR: net-misc/whois-4.6.5 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 32, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) mythdrannor root # The error appears immediately, so I could not investigate more. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge whois (as root) Actual Results: Emerging stop with an error. Expected Results: Correctly complete merge. Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1000MHz GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" 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="acpi crypt fbcon gpm gtk gtk2 ipv6 java mbox mmx ncurses pam pcmcia readline spell sse ssl tcpd truetype X zlib x86" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
You may safely close it, I tried it again a couple of days ago and it worked. Additionally, there has been a version bump and it also works.
fixed with newer version