As the topic says. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install dev-libs/libpcre-7.9_rc2 2. emerge redland 3. Actual Results: /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I/usr/include/db4.6 -I/usr/include/rasqal -DLIBRDF_INTERNAL=1 -Os -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -version-info 0:0:0 -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common -s -L/usr/lib -lrasqal -L/usr/lib -lraptor -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common -s -ldb-4.6 -lcrypto -lpthread -o librdf.la -rpath /usr/lib rdf_init.lo rdf_uri.lo rdf_node.lo rdf_statement.lo rdf_digest.lo rdf_hash.lo rdf_hash_cursor.lo rdf_hash_memory.lo rdf_model.lo rdf_model_storage.lo rdf_iterator.lo rdf_concepts.lo rdf_avltree.lo rdf_list.lo rdf_storage.lo rdf_storage_list.lo rdf_storage_hashes.lo rdf_storage_trees.lo rdf_storage_sql.lo rdf_stream.lo rdf_parser.lo rdf_parser_raptor.lo rdf_heuristics.lo rdf_files.lo rdf_utf8.lo rdf_query.lo rdf_query_results.lo rdf_query_triples.lo rdf_query_rasqal.lo rdf_serializer.lo rdf_serializer_raptor.lo rdf_log.lo rdf_storage_file.lo rdf_digest_openssl.lo rdf_hash_bdb.lo i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -shared .libs/rdf_init.o .libs/rdf_uri.o .libs/rdf_node.o .libs/rdf_statement.o .libs/rdf_digest.o .libs/rdf_hash.o .libs/rdf_hash_cursor.o .libs/rdf_hash_memory.o .libs/rdf_model.o .libs/rdf_model_storage.o .libs/rdf_iterator.o .libs/rdf_concepts.o .libs/rdf_avltree.o .libs/rdf_list.o .libs/rdf_storage.o .libs/rdf_storage_list.o .libs/rdf_storage_hashes.o .libs/rdf_storage_trees.o .libs/rdf_storage_sql.o .libs/rdf_stream.o .libs/rdf_parser.o .libs/rdf_parser_raptor.o .libs/rdf_heuristics.o .libs/rdf_files.o .libs/rdf_utf8.o .libs/rdf_query.o .libs/rdf_query_results.o .libs/rdf_query_triples.o .libs/rdf_query_rasqal.o .libs/rdf_serializer.o .libs/rdf_serializer_raptor.o .libs/rdf_log.o .libs/rdf_storage_file.o .libs/rdf_digest_openssl.o .libs/rdf_hash_bdb.o -L/usr/lib /usr/lib/librasqal.so /usr/lib/libraptor.so /usr/lib/libdb-4.6.so -lcrypto -lpthread -march=pentium-m -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,-soname -Wl,librdf.so.0 -o .libs/librdf.so.0.0.0 (cd .libs && rm -f librdf.so.0 && ln -s librdf.so.0.0.0 librdf.so.0) (cd .libs && rm -f librdf.so && ln -s librdf.so.0.0.0 librdf.so) i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar cru .libs/librdf.a rdf_init.o rdf_uri.o rdf_node.o rdf_statement.o rdf_digest.o rdf_hash.o rdf_hash_cursor.o rdf_hash_memory.o rdf_model.o rdf_model_storage.o rdf_iterator.o rdf_concepts.o rdf_avltree.o rdf_list.o rdf_storage.o rdf_storage_list.o rdf_storage_hashes.o rdf_storage_trees.o rdf_storage_sql.o rdf_stream.o rdf_parser.o rdf_parser_raptor.o rdf_heuristics.o rdf_files.o rdf_utf8.o rdf_query.o rdf_query_results.o rdf_query_triples.o rdf_query_rasqal.o rdf_serializer.o rdf_serializer_raptor.o rdf_log.o rdf_storage_file.o rdf_digest_openssl.o rdf_hash_bdb.o i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib .libs/librdf.a creating librdf.la /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libpcre.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libpcre.la' is not a valid libtool archive make[3]: *** [librdf.la] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/redland-1.0.8/work/redland-1.0.8/librdf' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/redland-1.0.8/work/redland-1.0.8/librdf' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/redland-1.0.8/work/redland-1.0.8/librdf' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 * * ERROR: dev-libs/redland-1.0.8 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 48: Called src_compile * environment, line 113: 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 '/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/redland-1.0.8/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/redland-1.0.8/temp/environment'. * I think it's related to dev-libs/libpcre-7.9_rc2 because in that version it "No longer include .la and .a files", as its changelog says. And you'll see this line dependency_libs=' -L/usr/lib /usr/lib/librasqal.la /usr/lib/libpcre.la -lbz2 /usr/lib/libmpfr.la /usr/lib/libgmp.la /usr/lib/libraptor.la /usr/lib/libxslt.la /usr/lib/libxml2.la -ldl -lz -lm /usr/lib/libdb-4.6.la -lcrypto -lpthread' in /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/redland-1.0.8/work/redland-1.0.8/librdf/librdf.la after the compilation fails. emerge --info: Portage 2.2_rc29 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.28-reiser4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-reiser4-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_M_processor_1.70GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.0 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:15:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p17 dev-lang/python: 2.6.1-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.3-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.9 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/eselect/postgresql /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/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.anheng.com.cn/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common -s" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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/u235ly" SYNC="rsync://mirror.averse.net/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl acpi alsa bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cscope cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evofam fasttrack fbcon firefox fortran gif gnome gnutella gpm gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde ldap libnotify live mad midi mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb vim-with-x vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xorg xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" 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" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Did you run "revdep-rebuild" (from app-portage/gentoolkit package) after you upgraded the libpcre package?
I've done what you told, and it's solved. Thanks!