When parallel make is enabled (MAKEOPTS="-j2" or greater) ncurses may fail to compile Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. install base system 2. edit make.conf, change MAKEOPTS tp -j2 or greater 3. emerge ncurses Actual Results: !!! ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 42, Exitcode 2 !!! parallel make failed Expected Results: ncurses should have compiled without errors Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-test3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/portage-overlay" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib directfb gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex aalib bonobo svga tcltk java guile mysql X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt kde motif opengl mozilla cdr" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
your build is failing for another reason. All of the ncurses builds are no longer doing parallel makes... I have fixed the invalid die message in portage. So now the question is... what is the REAL problem. :) Please show more of the error message if you could also the output of "emerge info"
This seems to be a strangebug ... I had the problem on a fresh install from stage1 on one machine, now it works on my machine. If i can reproduce this error I'll post a longer error message. The problem was _definitely_ connected to MAKEOPTS because setting it to -j1 made the problem go away on the other machine. (Both machines not overclocked and sane CFLAGS)
I did a fresh install from stage1 recently (2003/08/25) on an SMP machine, did set -j3 at first opportunity and did not hit this one. Comment part of Bug day :) USE="3dnow acpi alsa apache2 cdr dga doc dvd flash matrox perl postgres samba scanner socks5 sse usb wmf" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -finline-limit=200 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-mp"
This is a non-problem. Removed the misleading "die" message
