Building libperl-5.8.0 fails with the following error when trying to link against /usr/lib/crt1.o, part of glibc: gcc -o libperl.so.1.5.8 -L/usr/local/lib perl.o malloc.o gv.o toke.o perly.o op.o regcomp.o dump.o util.o mg.o reentr.o hv.o av.o run.o pp_hot.o sv.o pp.o scope.o pp_ctl.o pp_sys.o doop.o doio.o regexec.o utf8.o taint.o deb.o universal.o xsutils.o globals.o perlio.o perlapi.o numeric.o locale.o pp_pack.o pp_sort.o -Wl,-soname -Wl,libperl.so.`echo libperl.so.1.5.8 | cut -d. -f3` /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.1/../../../crt1.o(.text+0x18): In function `_start': : undefined reference to `main' pp.o(.text+0x2725): In function `Perl_pp_pow': : undefined reference to `pow' pp.o(.text+0x6d5f): In function `Perl_pp_sin': : undefined reference to `sin' pp.o(.text+0x6e9f): In function `Perl_pp_cos': : undefined reference to `cos' pp.o(.text+0x727f): In function `Perl_pp_exp': : undefined reference to `exp' pp.o(.text+0x73f4): In function `Perl_pp_log': : undefined reference to `log' pp.o(.text+0x8fdb): In function `Perl_pp_crypt': : undefined reference to `crypt' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status distcc[26655] ERROR: compile on localhost failed make: *** [libperl.so.1.5.8] Error 1 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.49-r4 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ distcc 2.10 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.2 [disabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" 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/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox autoaddcvs distcc -ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/package-mask" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex aalib bonobo svga ggi tcltk java guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt kde motif opengl mozilla gphoto2 ldap cdr scanner 3dnow acpi doc dvd ethereal evms2 evo flash gtk2 imap ipv6 javascript jikes joystick kerberos krb4 lcms maildir mbox oav pcap ppds samba sasl slp snmp socks5 src sse tiff usb videos wmf wxwindows xinerama xml xvid"
Turns out the perl configure script was trying to use /sbin/test (garbage), not /bin/test, which was breaking things further on. Removing /sbin/test fixed it. Sorry for the trouble.
