Emerge of media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1 fails. This does not appear (to me) to be the same as the emerge failure people are reporting for the hardened profile, as the characteristic error message is missing. Previous version of mplayer works fine: mediacentre paul # mplayer --version MPlayer dev-SVN-r26753-3.4.6 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 1) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE Unknown option on the command line: --version Error parsing option on the command line: --version Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -auv mplayer 2. 3. Actual Results: ar rc libavcodec.a allcodecs.o audioconvert.o bitstream.o bitstream_filter.o dsputil.o eval.o faanidct.o imgconvert.o jrevdct.o opt.o parser.o raw.o resample.o resample2.o simple_idct.o utils.o aandcttab.o faandct.o jfdctfst.o jfdctint.o fft.o golomb.o mdct.o aac.o aactab.o aasc.o msrledec.o eac3dec.o ac3dec.o ac3tab.o ac3dec_data.o ac3.o ac3enc.o alac.o alacenc.o lpc.o sp5xdec.o mjpegdec.o mjpeg.o apedec.o asv1.o mpeg12data.o atrac3.o avs.o bethsoftvideo.o bfi.o bmp.o bmpenc.o c93.o cavs.o cavsdec.o cavsdsp.o mpegvideo.o cinepak.o cljr.o cook.o cscd.o cyuv.o dca.o dnxhddec.o dnxhddata.o dnxhdenc.o mpegvideo_enc.o motion_est.o ratecontrol.o dsicinav.o dvbsubdec.o dvbsub.o dvdsubdec.o dvdsubenc.o dv.o dxa.o eacmv.o eatgq.o eaidct.o eatgv.o 8bps.o 8svx.o escape124.o ffv1.o rangecoder.o huffyuv.o flac.o flacenc.o flashsv.o flashsvenc.o flicvideo.o h263dec.o h263.o error_resilience.o 4xm.o fraps.o huffman.o gifdec.o lzw.o gif.o h261dec.o h261.o h261enc.o h263_parser.o h264.o h264idct.o h264pred.o h264_parser.o cabac.o idcinvideo.o imc.o indeo2.o indeo3.o dpcm.o interplayvideo.o jpeglsdec.o jpegls.o jpeglsenc.o kmvc.o ljpegenc.o mjpegenc.o loco.o mace.o mimic.o mjpegbdec.o mlpdec.o mlp_parser.o mlp.o mmvideo.o motionpixels.o mpegaudiodec.o mpegaudiodecheader.o mpegaudio.o mpegaudiodata.o mpegaudioenc.o mpeg4audio.o mpc7.o mpc.o mpc8.o mdec.o mpeg12.o mpeg12enc.o mpeg4video_parser.o msmpeg4.o msmpeg4data.o msrle.o msvideo1.o lcldec.o nellymoserdec.o nellymoser.o nellymoserenc.o nuv.o rtjpeg.o pnmenc.o pnm.o pcx.o png.o pngdec.o pngenc.o ptx.o qdm2.o qdrw.o qpeg.o qtrle.o qtrleenc.o ra144.o celp_filters.o ra288.o celp_math.o rawdec.o rawenc.o rl2.o roqvideodec.o roqvideo.o roqvideoenc.o elbg.o roqaudioenc.o rpza.o rv10.o rv40.o rv34.o rv40dsp.o sgidec.o sgienc.o rle.o shorten.o smacker.o smc.o snow.o sonic.o sunrast.o svq1dec.o svq1.o svq1enc.o targa.o targaenc.o vp3.o xiph.o vp3dsp.o tiertexseqv.o tiff.o tiffenc.o lzwenc.o truemotion1.o truemotion2.o truespeech.o tscc.o tta.o txd.o s3tc.o ulti.o vb.o vc1.o vc1data.o vc1dsp.o intrax8.o intrax8dsp.o vcr1.o vmdav.o vmnc.o vorbis_dec.o vorbis.o vorbis_data.o vorbis_enc.o vp5.o vp56.o vp56data.o vp6.o vqavideo.o wavpack.o wmadec.o wma.o wmaenc.o wmv2dec.o wmv2.o wmv2enc.o wnv1.o ws-snd1.o xan.o xl.o xsubdec.o lclenc.o zmbv.o zmbvenc.o pcm.o adpcm.o adxdec.o adxenc.o g726.o libfaac.o libmp3lame.o libxvidff.o libxvid_rc.o aac_parser.o aac_ac3_parser.o ac3_parser.o cavs_parser.o dca_parser.o dirac_parser.o dnxhd_parser.o dvbsub_parser.o dvdsub_parser.o h261_parser.o mjpeg_parser.o mpegaudio_parser.o mpegvideo_parser.o pnm_parser.o vc1_parser.o vp3_parser.o dump_extradata_bsf.o h264_mp4toannexb_bsf.o imx_dump_header_bsf.o mjpega_dump_header_bsf.o movsub_bsf.o mp3_header_compress_bsf.o mp3_header_decompress_bsf.o noise_bsf.o remove_extradata_bsf.o pthread.o xvmcvideo.o i386/cpuid.o i386/dsputil_mmx.o i386/fdct_mmx.o i386/idct_mmx_xvid.o i386/idct_sse2_xvid.o i386/motion_est_mmx.o i386/mpegvideo_mmx.o i386/simple_idct_mmx.o i386/cavsdsp_mmx.o i386/dsputilenc_mmx.o i386/flacdsp_mmx.o i386/idct_mmx.o i386/snowdsp_mmx.o i386/vc1dsp_mmx.o i386/vp3dsp_mmx.o i386/vp3dsp_sse2.o i386/dsputil_yasm.o i386/fft_3dn.o i386/fft_3dn2.o i386/fft_mmx.o i386/fft_sse.o true libavcodec.a make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1/work/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058/libavcodec' touch libavcodec/libavcodec.a * * ERROR: media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2609: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die "Failed to build MPlayer!"; * The die message: * Failed to build MPlayer! * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/media-video:mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1:20090117-134200.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1/temp/environment'. * Expected Results: Successful emerge mediacentre paul # gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/specs Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r2/work/gcc-3.4.6/configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.4.6 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/include/g++-v3 --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --disable-altivec --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --with-system-zlib --disable-checking --disable-werror --enable-secureplt --disable-multilib --enable-java-awt=gtk --with-arch=i686 --enable-languages=c,c++,java,treelang,f77 --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r2 p1.5, ssp-3.4.6-1.0, pie-8.7.10) mediacentre paul # emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.20-gentoo-r8-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:20:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r14, 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.6-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/" LANG="en_GB.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/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="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dfx 3dnowex X acpi alsa bash-completion berkdb bluetooth bonobo branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus directfb divx4linux doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam fame fbcon firefox font-server fortran gcj gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv isdnlog java jpeg libnotify lzo mad matrox midi mikmod mmx mmx2 mng mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ntfs ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime quotes readline reflection reiserfs rtc scanner sdl session spell spl sql sse ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode usb userlocales vim-syntax vorbis win32codecs wmf x86 xanim xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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" CAMERAS="sony_dscf55" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa fbdev nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
It looks like you are using a hardened toolchain, though not a hardened profile. Do you also have gcc-4.1.2 available to try? Also, please attach the full build log.
emerge -auv --deep mplayer resolved the problem. I may have a hardened toolchain, as I have experimented with hardened before. How would I know/tell? I didn't save the full build log, and I am unable to re-create now.