emere -u libxml results in the following build error: /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcc -O3 -mtune=i686 -pipe -Wall -Wl,-O1 -o libxml.la -rpath /usr/lib -version-info 9:17:8 -lz SAX.lo entities.lo encoding.lo error.lo parser.lo parserold.lo HTMLparser.lo HTMLtree.lo debugXML.lo tree.lo xpath.lo xmlIO.lo xmlmemory.lo nanohttp.lo nanoftp.lo valid.lo xlink.lo uri.lo -lz -lncurses rm -fr .libs/libxml.la .libs/libxml.* .libs/libxml.* *** Warning: inter-library dependencies are not known to be supported. *** All declared inter-library dependencies are being dropped. *** The inter-library dependencies that have been dropped here will be *** automatically added whenever a program is linked with this library *** or is declared to -dlopen it. gcc -shared SAX.lo entities.lo encoding.lo error.lo parser.lo parserold.lo HTMLparser.lo HTMLtree.lo debugXML.lo tree.lo xpath.lo xmlIO.lo xmlmemory.lo nanohttp.lo nanoftp.lo valid.lo xlink.lo uri.lo -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-soname -Wl, -o .libs/ /usr/lib/gcc/i386-gentoo-linux-uclibc/4.1.2/../../../../i386-gentoo-linux-uclibc/bin/ld: cannot open output file .libs/: Is a directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [libxml.la] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libxml-1.8.17-r2/work/libxml-1.8.17' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libxml-1.8.17-r2/work/libxml-1.8.17' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge -u libxml Actual Results: build fails Expected Results: successfull build emerge --info Portage 2.1.6_rc1 (uclibc/x86, gcc-4.1.2, uclibc-0.9.28.3-r3, 2.6.26-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.26-gentoo-r1-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_2.80GHz-with-libc0 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:02:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p48 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6, 2.5.2-r8 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.3.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i386-gentoo-linux-uclibc" CFLAGS="-O3 -mtune=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i386-gentoo-linux-uclibc" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mtune=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks nodoc noinfo noman parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages/uclibc" 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="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/nebla" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="cli cracklib crypt dri midi minimal mudflap ncurses openmp pcre perl python readline reflection session spl ssl tcpd uclibc x86 xorg zlib" 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="uclibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="dummy fbdev v4l" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
emerge --info WARNING: One or more repositories have missing repo_name entries: /usr/local/overlays/nebla/profiles/repo_name NOTE: Each repo_name entry should be a plain text file containing a unique name for the repository on the first line. Portage 2.1.6_rc1 (uclibc/x86, gcc-4.1.2, uclibc-0.9.28.3-r3, 2.6.26-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.26-gentoo-r1-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_2.80GHz-with-libc0 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:02:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p48 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6, 2.5.2-r8 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.3.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i386-gentoo-linux-uclibc" CFLAGS="-O3 -mtune=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i386-gentoo-linux-uclibc" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mtune=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks nodoc noinfo noman parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages/uclibc" 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="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/nebla" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="cli cracklib crypt dri midi minimal mudflap ncurses openmp pcre perl python readline reflection session spl ssl tcpd uclibc x86 xorg zlib" 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="uclibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="dummy fbdev v4l" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
looks like a parallel build bug to me
(In reply to comment #2) > looks like a parallel build bug to me > Tried with MAKEOPTS="-j1". Same problem then.
I can't reproduce with dev-libs/libxml-1.8.17-r3. Please provide a full build.log.