app-benchmarks/ltp fails to compile, requiring libaio cc -o growfiles growfiles.o -O2 -pipe -Wall -Wall -I../../../../include -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-z,now -L../../../../lib -lltp -laio -lrt /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -laio collect2: ld returned 1 exit status distcc[9785] ERROR: compile (null) on localhost failed make[4]: *** [growfiles] Error 1 Also, ltp fails to compile because of parallel processes, a patch was submitted on Jan 22, 2009 that fixes the makefile. Please refer to http://www.nabble.com/-PATCH--Fix-parallel-build-problem-in%09testcases-network-lib6-Makefile-td21598073.html Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -C libaio (if installed) 2. emerge ltp (must unmask and keyword it) 3. STEPS TO FIX: emerge -1 libaio ebuild: DEPEND=dev-libs/libaio Actual Results: Compile Fails Expected Results: Compile Success Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T9500_@_2.60GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:30:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 x86_64-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-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.8 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="-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 /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distcc distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com" LANG="en_US" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j6" 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.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl acpi alsa amd64 arts avahi bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvdr dvdread flac fortran gdbm gif glitz gpm hal iconv ieee1394 ipod ipv6 isdnlog java java6 jpeg kde laptop midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pda perl png pppd python qt3 readline reflection samba sdl session sndfile spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs tcpd theora tiff timidity unicode utempter v4l vorbis wavpack wifi x264 xcb xorg xvid xvmc 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 evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa nv" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
So I just added 20090131 to the tree. Does that fix your issues? Reopen this bug if so. Thanks!
emerge -C libaio ltp emerge -av =app-benchmarks/ltp-20090131 Compiles perfect. Tests seem to be running fine so far as well. A few of them are failing though.