make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/ruby-1.6.8-r2/work/ruby-1.6.8/ext/curses' gcc -fPIC -O2 -pipe -fPIC -I/var/tmp/portage/ruby-1.6.8-r2/work/ruby-1.6.8 -I/var/tmp/portage/ruby-1.6.8-r2/work/ruby-1.6.8 -DHAVE_NCURSES_H -DHAVE_ISENDWIN -DHAVE_UNGETCH -DHAVE_BEEP -DHAVE_DOUPDATE -DHAVE_FLASH -DHAVE_DELETELN -DHAVE_WDELETELN -c curses.c gcc -shared -L/var/tmp/portage/ruby-1.6.8-r2/work/ruby-1.6.8 -L/usr/lib -o curses.so curses.o -L. -lruby16 -lncurses -lc make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ruby-1.6.8-r2/work/ruby-1.6.8/ext/curses' compiling dbm extmk.rb:131: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [ia64-linux-gnu] make: *** [all] Aborted !!! ERROR: dev-lang/ruby-1.6.8-r2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 57, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message)
Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-ia64-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-itanium-smp) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-itanium-smp ia64 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.11 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ia64 ~ia64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="ia64-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="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://kant.zk3.dec.com/gentoo/mirror/sources/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://kant.zk3.dec.com/gentoo-portage" USE="ia64 oss apm arts avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gpm gtk imlib -java jpeg gnome libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pdflib png qt quicktime sdl spell svga truetype X xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb readline tcpd pam ssl python -kde -slang cscope perl ruby imap snmp socks5 moznoirc moznomail moznocompose"
Marked 1.8.0-r1 stable to solve this problem