I needed to run emerge with FEATURE="-distcc" to get it compile. It dies with "kmk failed" otherwise. Attaching the emerge message... Setting minor as there is an easy workaround. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install and enable distcc 2. emerge virtualbox-ose with FEATURES="distcc"
Created attachment 179175 [details] Tail of emerge log
# emerge --info: Portage 2.2_rc23 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_3.20GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:00:01 +0000 distcc 3.0 i686-pc-linux-gnu [enabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mfpmath=sse -msse3" 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/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/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mfpmath=sse -msse3 -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache collision-protect distcc distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/ http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/" LANG="de_DE.utf8" LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de de_DE en en_US en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-s -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/portage/local/layman/gentoo-de /usr/portage/local/layman/voip /usr/portage/local/layman/gentopia /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/nouveau /usr/local/overlays/sol /usr/local/overlays/hamsterrific" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip X a52 aac accessibility acl acpi addbookmarks aiglx aio alias alsa amr amrnb amrwb ao ares arts artswrappersuid asf async asyncns audiofile auto-completion autoreplace avahi bash-completion berkdb bl bluetooth branding browserplugin bzip2 cairo caps cdaudio cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr chm cjk cli connectionstatus consolekit contactnotes cracklib crypt css cups curl custom-optimization cvs daap dbus devil dga disk-partition divx djvu dmi dri dts dv dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread dynamic ecc emboss emerald enca encode exif expat exscalibar fam famefasttrack fbcon fbcondecor ffmpeg fftw firefox firefox3 flac fluidsynth fontconfig foomaticdb fpx freeimage ftp fuse gd gdbm geoip ggi gif gimpprint glibc-omitfp glitz glut gmedia gnutella gnutls gpgme gphoto2 gpm graphviz gs gsm gstreamer gtkhtml hal hbci highlight history hpn htmlhandbook http iconv id3 id3tag idea idn ilbc imagemagick imap imlib inode inotify ip1500ipv6 irc irmc isdnlog java javascript jbig joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde kde4 kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kdgraphics kdrive kipi kpathsea ladspa lame laptop lcms ldap libnotify libsamplerate libsysfs libv4l2 linuxthreads-tls live lm_sensors logitech-mouse logrotate lzo mad matroska mbox mbrola md5sum mdnsresponder-compat messenger midi mikmod mjpeg mmap mmx mmxext mng mod modplug mono mp2 mp3 mp3rtp mp4 mpeg mpeg2 mpi mplayer mudflap musepack music musicbrainz mwf mysql ncurses nemesi netmeeting network newspr nfs nis nls nntp nowlistening nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs obex ofx ogg openal openexr openft opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf pertty php physfs png pnm policykit pop ppds pppd pulseaudio qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rar readline realmedia reflection reiserfs resid rle rtc rtsp ruby samba samplerate sasl scanner schroedinger sdl sdl-image servicetools session sftplogging shout singerbot slang slp smime smpsms smtp sndfile sound soundex soundtouch speex spell spl sql sqlite sqlite3 srp srt srtp sse sse2 ssl startup-notification statistics stk subversion suhosin surround svg swig symlink sysfs syslog sysvipc taglib test-programs texteffect tga themes theora threads tidy tiff timidity translator transparency truetype twolame unicode upnp usb userlocales utempter utf8 v4l v4l2 vamp vcd vcdinfo vcdx vhook videos vidix vim-pager vim-syntax visualization vlm vorbis vst wavpack webdav webpresence win32codecs winpopup wmf wmp wxwindows x264 x86 xanim xattr xcb xcomposite xine xml xml2 xorg xosd xpm xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc yahoo yv12 zeroconf zlib zrtp" 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="canon" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de de_DE en en_US en_GB" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vesa v4l fbdev vga" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Yep, this is known upstream, they are working on it
