This is on a new install on an Ultra2 SMP. When I 'emerge xfree' it appears to compile and build most of the package, then fails with a link error on "XFree86". It looks like libdriver.a does not contain a reference to afbScreenInit, in particular vesa_drv.o. I've done an 'emerge sync' and have been able to reproduce this after bringing the system up to date 'emerge -u world'. I initially built the system using -mcpu=v9 in CFLAGS, then I read about problems with that so I switched it to -mcpu=ultrasparc. Perhaps that has something to do with it? I didn't rebuild with an 'emerge -e world' after making the change. The system is otherwise clean and working. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge xfree 2. 3. Actual Results: emerge fails with a link error towards the end of the compile process Expected Results: sucessful emerge of xfree Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-sparc64-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.1-r4, 2.4.21-sparc-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.21-sparc-r1 sparc64 sun4u ccache version 2.2 [enabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=ultrasparc -O2 -pipe" CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=ultrasparc -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache nostrip cvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="sparc arts apm avi encode esd fbcon foomaticdb gtk imlib kde libwww mad mikmod motif ncurses nls oggvorbis oss qt sdl spell xmms zlib gdbm berkdb readline perl acl apache2 crypt cups debug doc gif gnome gtk2 imap ipv6 java jpeg maildir mozilla mpeg odbc opengl pam pdflib png postgres prelude python slang ssl tcpd tetex tiff truetype X xml2 xv"
Created attachment 17494 [details] the link command and resulting errors
Created attachment 17495 [details] the link command and resulting errors
That would be my first inclination as well. IIRC, using -mcpu=v9 can cause some programs to think you are running in 64 bit mode (Gentoo Linux userland runs in 32 bit mode). Hopefully you haven't installed too much yet :)
I wiped my install and started over using -mcpu=ultrasparc from the beginning. I was then able to 'emerge xfree' without any problems. I had first tried to do an 'emerge -e world' to update the system to use -mcpu=ultrasparc but that failed with some strange errors. I was also unable to complete scripts/bootstrap.sh (in an attempt to update the system), so I suspect the system was pretty messed up by the -mcpu=v9 flag.
