compiling arora-9999 (git snapshot: c204578d16817577fa3361bf2fbe2ff7fcb23905) i get this error: i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -c -pipe -march=prescott -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse,387 -Wall -W -D_REENTRANT -DQT_NO_UITOOLS -DGITVERSION="\"c204578\"" -DGITCHANGENUMBER="\"1148\"" -DDATADIR=\"/usr/share\" -DPKGDATADIR=\"/usr/share/arora\" -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_WEBKIT_LIB -DQT_SCRIPT_LIB -DQT_SQL_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/share/qt4/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I. -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt4/QtNetwork -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -I/usr/include/qt4/QtSql -I/usr/include/qt4/QtScript -I/usr/include/qt4/QtWebKit -I/usr/include/qt4 -I. -I../../src -I../../src/bookmarks -I../../src/bookmarks/xbel -I../../src/history -I../../src/locationbar -I../../src/network -I../../src/network/cookiejar -I../../src/network/cookiejar/networkcookiejar -I../../src/opensearch -I../../src/qwebplugins -I../../src/qwebplugins/clicktoflash -I../../src/utils -I../../src/.moc -I../../src/.ui -o ../../src/.obj/moc_lineedit.o ../../src/.moc/moc_lineedit.cpp /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: can not read symbols: No such file or directory .obj/languagemanager.o: In function `LanguageManager::setCurrentLanguage(QString const&)': languagemanager.cpp:(.text+0xbc1): undefined reference to `LanguageManager::languageChanged(QString const&)' languagemanager.cpp:(.text+0xfe8): undefined reference to `LanguageManager::languageChanged(QString const&)' .obj/languagemanager.o: In function `LanguageManager::chooseNewLanguage()': languagemanager.cpp:(.text+0x15fd): undefined reference to `LanguageManager::staticMetaObject' languagemanager.cpp:(.text+0x1624): undefined reference to `LanguageManager::staticMetaObject' languagemanager.cpp:(.text+0x199f): undefined reference to `LanguageManager::staticMetaObject' .obj/languagemanager.o: In function `LanguageManager::LanguageManager(QString const&, QObject*)': languagemanager.cpp:(.text+0x1c73): undefined reference to `vtable for LanguageManager' .obj/languagemanager.o: In function `LanguageManager::LanguageManager(QString const&, QObject*)': languagemanager.cpp:(.text+0x203f): undefined reference to `vtable for LanguageManager' /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output collect2: ld returned 1 exit status it's another package with broken parallal build system, indeed forcing MAKEOPTS="-j1" fixes the error. Hope to be useful.
This is a common error and you should report it back upstream In fact http://code.google.com/p/arora/issues/detail?id=457
