When I do emerge bootsplash, it goes fine until gcc -O2 -Wall -I/usr/include/freetype2 -L/usr/lib -static -o fbtruetype.static -L/usr/lib fbtruetype.o messages.o console.o ttf.o luxisri.o /usr/lib/libfreetype.a /usr/lib/libz.a -lmgcc: /usr/lib/libz.a: No such file or directory make: *** [fbtruetype.static] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... !!! ERROR: media-gfx/bootsplash-0.6-r2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 28, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge bootsplash Actual Results: I get a File not found error during compiling and it doesn't finish. Expected Results: Bootsplash is emerged Portage 2.0.49-r18 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20031212-r0, 2.4.18-14) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.18-14 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X acpi alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb cdr crypt cups doc dvd encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype usb videosx x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
I just did a emerge sync and emerge -update world. It seems that emergeing zlib 1.2.1-r2 fixes the issue
