I don't know enough about portage to tell if this is a duplicate of bug 259356 or bug 258072. But in those reports I don't see the same error messages (especially nothing about -fPIC). /home/portage/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/elf/librtld.os: In function `process_envvars': rtld.c:(.text+0x11f9): undefined reference to `__open' rtld.c:(.text+0x167f): undefined reference to `__access' /home/portage/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/elf/librtld.os: In function `dl_main': rtld.c:(.text+0x263d): undefined reference to `__access' /home/portage/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/elf/librtld.os: In function `lose': dl-load.c:(.text+0x4a5e): undefined reference to `__close' /home/portage/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/elf/librtld.os: In function `open_verify': dl-load.c:(.text+0x4ba9): undefined reference to `__open' dl-load.c:(.text+0x4bc6): undefined reference to `rtld_errno' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /home/portage/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/elf/librtld.os: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against `rtld_errno' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [/home/portage/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/elf/ld.so] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/portage/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2/work/glibc-2.9-20081201/elf' make[1]: *** [elf/subdir_lib] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/portage/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2/work/glibc-2.9-20081201' make: *** [all] Error 2 * * ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 3543: Called eblit-run 'src_compile' * environment, line 1127: Called eblit-glibc-src_compile * src_compile.eblit, line 187: Called toolchain-glibc_src_compile * src_compile.eblit, line 122: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * make PARALLELMFLAGS="${MAKEOPTS}" || die "make for ${ABI} failed" * The die message: * make for amd64 failed * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/root/log/sys-libs:glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2:20090217-083235.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/home/portage/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2/temp/environment'. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1, 2.6.28-tuxonice x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-tuxonice-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P8600_@_2.40GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:40:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 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, 2.63 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="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-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/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/home/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo ftp://ftp.rz.tu-bs.de/pub/mirror/ftp.gentoo.org/gentoo-distfiles http://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="C" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en de pl es" MAKEOPTS="-s -j2" 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="/home/portage/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cairo cddb cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dell dga dri dvd dvdread encode esd exif fbsplash ffmpeg firefox flac fontconfig fortran gd gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gnuplot gpm gtk hal hddtemp iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg jpeg2k laptop lcms libnotify loop-aes mad midi mmx mozbranding mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python readline reflection sdl session spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 sse3 sse4 ssl ssse3 svg sysfs tcl tcpd theora threads tiff tk truetype unicode vim-pager vim-syntax vim-with-x vorbis wifi x264 xcb xine xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en de pl es" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel nv nvidia vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
have you always used a no multilib profile ? you havent flipped between hardened ones or multilib ones have you ?
I have never used a different profile on this machine. I set up no-multilib during installation.
Since the original try I again tried to emerge it again every now and then. For some reason it showed a different error each time. I now remembered that the filesystem that I am trying on (JFS) is kind of special, so I now tried to set PORTAGE_TMP on an ext3. And glibc emerged without problems. I guess this makes this bug invalid.
