This is what I get: make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/ORBit-0.5.16/work/ORBit-0.5.16/src/orb' ../../src/orbit-idl-compiler/orbit-idl --noskels ../../src/daemons/interface_repository/interface_repository.idl Error: Empty file ** WARNING **: ../../src/daemons/interface_repository/interface_repository.idl compilation failed touch my_ir_stuff /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I.. -I../../src -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -DORBit_SYSRC=\"/etc/orbitrc\" -I../../src/ORBitutil -DORBIT_MAJOR_VERSION="0" -DORBIT_MINOR_VERSION="5" -DORBIT_MICRO_VERSION="16" -DORBIT_VERSION=\"0.5.16\" -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"ORBit\" -march=athlon -O2 -pipe -c interface_repository-common.c mkdir .libs i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I.. -I../../src -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -DORBit_SYSRC=\"/etc/orbitrc\" -I../../src/ORBitutil -DORBIT_MAJOR_VERSION=0 -DORBIT_MINOR_VERSION=5 -DORBIT_MICRO_VERSION=16 -DORBIT_VERSION=\"0.5.16\" -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"ORBit\" -march=athlon -O2 -pipe -c interface_repository-common.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/interface_repository-common.lo i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: interface_repository-common.c: No such file or directory i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: no input files make[3]: *** [interface_repository-common.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ORBit-0.5.16/work/ORBit-0.5.16/src/orb' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ORBit-0.5.16/work/ORBit-0.5.16/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ORBit-0.5.16/work/ORBit-0.5.16' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 !!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully. !!! Function src_compile, Line 21, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message)
You most likely have compiled sys-apps/portage with gcc3.1 -- that breaks a great many things. Grab a gcc2.95.3-compiled portage from /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files to recover from this. Matt
Yeah that solved it. So we got another portage bug.
Dont see why this should stay open.