I does this for around 10% of all packages: from config.log configure:5258: checking if S_ISWHT can be used configure:5280: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o conftest -O2 -pipe -march=core2 -g -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-O1,--hash-style=gnu,--sort-common conftest.c >&5 collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault] /opt/scisoft64/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.2.01.15553/temp/ccYkG5Sb.o: In function `main': /opt/scisoft64/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.2.01.15553/work/prefix-portage-2.2.01.15553/conftest.c:51: undefined reference to `S_ISWHT' configure:5280: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: It is a opensuse-11.3 x86_64 host.
Portage 2.2.01.15553-prefix (prefix/linux/amd64, gcc-4.4.5, unavailable, 2.6.34.7-0.5-desktop x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34.7-0.5-desktop-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E5504_@_2.00GHz-with-SuSE-11.3-x86_64 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:12:11 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r2 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.6.3-r1, 1.10.2-r00.1, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.51.0.10 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r00.2 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.34 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64-linux ~amd64-linux" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=core2 -g" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/nano/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=core2 -g" DISTDIR="/opt/scisoft64/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="-t --verbose --jobs=4 --load-average=8 --keep-going" FEATURES="assume-digests buildsyspkg ccache collision-protect distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news noinfo parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sfperms sign split-elog split-log splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=core2 -g" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://gentoo.j-schmitz.net/mirror/ ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/" LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-O1,--hash-style=gnu,--sort-common" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j12 -l4" PKGDIR="/opt/scisoft64/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/opt/scisoft64/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/opt/scisoft64/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/opt/scisoft64/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/opt/scisoft64/data/sciprefix" SYNC="rsync://rsync.prefix.freens.org/gentoo-portage-prefix" USE="X amd64 apbs aria bash-completion berkdb blas bzip2 c++ cblas cli cracklib crypt cxx dri fortran gdbm gmp iconv lapack libssh2 lzma mmx modules motif mudflap nano-syntax ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl openmp openssl pcre perl png pppd prefix python readline session sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd threads tk truetype unicode xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon intel vesa nvidia radeonhd r128" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I bet there is a newer ld out there these days