The only way I were successful to emerge lcms, was to put the line "media-libs/lcms -python" in /etc/portage/package.use python is a default use flag for this package (which suggest me it should be of some importance in the programmer's intention). So, in order to compile it, I had to flag off it explicitly. This happened with more than one version of python installed, currently python-2.5.4-r2 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge lcms 2. 3. Actual Results: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"lcms\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"lcms\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"1.17\" "-DPACKAGE_STRING=\"lcms 1.17\"" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DSIZEOF_INT=4 -DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_INT=4 -DSIZEOF_LONG=8 -DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_LONG=8 -DSIZEOF_LONG_LONG=8 -DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG=8 -DHasJPEG=1 -DHasZLIB=1 -DHasTIFF=1 -DHAVE_TIFFCONF_H=1 -I. -I/usr/include/python2.5 -I/usr/local/include/python2.5 -I../include -I../include -march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -msse3 -c lcms_wrap.cxx -o _lcms_la-lcms_wrap.o >/dev/null 2>&1 /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -msse3 -no-undefined -module -avoid-version -L/usr/local/lib/python2.5/config -Wl,-O1 -o _lcms.la -rpath /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages _lcms_la-lcms_wrap.lo ../src/liblcms.la -lpython2.5 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -shared -nostdlib /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/crti.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/crtbeginS.o .libs/_lcms_la-lcms_wrap.o -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/hugetmp/portage/portage/media-libs/lcms-1.17/work/lcms-1.17/src/.libs -L/usr/local/lib/python2.5/config ../src/.libs/liblcms.so -lpython2.5 -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2 -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../lib64 -L/lib/../lib64 -L/usr/lib/../lib64 -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../.. -lstdc++ -lm -lc -lgcc_s /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/crtendS.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/crtn.o -march=athlon64 -msse3 -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-soname -Wl,_lcms.so -o .libs/_lcms.so /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.a(abstract.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/local/lib/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.a: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [_lcms.la] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/hugetmp/portage/portage/media-libs/lcms-1.17/work/lcms-1.17/python' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 * * ERROR: media-libs/lcms-1.17 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2474: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die "emake failed" * The die message: * emake failed * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/sync/gentoo/log/media-libs:lcms-1.17:20090301-190918.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/hugetmp/portage/portage/media-libs/lcms-1.17/temp/environment'. * Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8-x86_64-AMD_Athlon_Dual-Core_QL-60-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:30:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.8 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.12 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=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -msse3" 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 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ncurses netcdf nforce nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia nvidia-glx objc ofx ogg openal opengl openmp osc pcre pdflib perl php plotutils png portaudio ppds pppd prelude profile python qdbm qt qt3 qt4 quicktime radius readline reflection ruby samba scanner sdl session sharedext shorten simplexml slp sndfile speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs szip tcltk tcp tcpd test tetex theora tidy tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vcd videos vim-syntax vorbis wddx wifi wireless wmf xfce xfce4 xine xml xmlrpc xorg xosd xpm xscreensaver xsl 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="access auth auth_dbm 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/usr/local/lib/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.a(abstract.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/local/lib/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.a: could not read symbols: Bad value Why do you have libpython2.5.a residing in /usr/local/lib? Seems like you installed python manually and this installation now interferes with the regular python installation from portage. Please remove all python-related stuff from /usr/local and try to emerge lcms with activated python USE flag again.
(In reply to comment #1) > Please remove all python-related stuff from /usr/local and try to emerge lcms > with activated python USE flag again. Thank you it did the trick. I tend to exclude that I installed python2.5 manually, but I admit I have no explanation as to why those files where there. Nor remerging python (just to experiment) has put any files there. Strange.
