Hi, When compiling xorg, the mesa package failed to compile. Here's my emerge info Portage 2.1.6.11 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_@_2.66GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /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="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j17" 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi amd64 authdaemon automount avahi berkdb bzip2 cairo caps cdr clamav cli cracklib crypt cups curl custom-cflags dbus dri dvdr fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk hal iconv imap ioemu iommu ipv6 isdnlog jpeg libwww maildir mdnsresponder-compat memlimit midi mmx mtrr mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl openmp pae pam pcre pdf perl pppd python rdesktop readline reflection sasl session spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 symlink sysfs tcpd threads truetype unicode xml xorg xosd xscreenserver xsm 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" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Saddly the emerge failed log went away when I successfuly compiled it. The only solution I found to compile it was like this: USE="-dri" emerge mesa Know that the package compiles fine without the USE="-dri" once xorg has finished compiling the other packages. PS: Yes I did try to recompile the package with MAKEOPTS="-j1" as well but same behaviour, the only way to compile mesa on my system was the way used above. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. LiveCD minimal install, build your system, emerge --update --newuse --deep world, make sure everything is up to date; emerge -e world. If ok, reboot 2. emerge xorg-server 3. emerge fails on media-libs/mesa-7.3-r1 Alright, I've made a mistake emerge xorg-server instead of xorg-x11, but nevertheless the emerge of mesa failed without the slightest error message in the log. The top most error was not of much help.
Sorry, without the build log we cannot do anything about this.