Hi all I am unable to emerge firefox-7.0.1-r1. I am getting an error when portage is running: cd ../../dist/firefox && rm -f omni.jar components/binary.manifest && grep -h '^binary-component' components/*.manifest > binary.manifest ; for m in components/*.manifest; do sed -e 's/^binary-component/#binary-component/' $m > tmp.manifest && mv tmp.manifest $m; done; /usr/bin/zip -r9m omni.jar chrome chrome.manifest components/*.js components/*.xpt components/*.manifest modules res defaults greprefs.js jsloader -x chrome/icons/\* defaults/pref/channel-prefs.js res/cursors/\* res/MainMenu.nib/\* && /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-7.0.1-r1/work/mozilla-release/obj-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/browser/installer/../../dist/bin/run-mozilla.sh /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-7.0.1-r1/work/mozilla-release/obj-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/dist/bin/xpcshell -g "$PWD" -a "$PWD" -f /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-7.0.1-r1/work/mozilla-release/browser/installer/precompile_cache.js -e 'populate_startupcache("omni.jar", "startupCache.zip");' && rm -rf jsloader && /usr/bin/unzip startupCache.zip && rm startupCache.zip && /usr/bin/zip -r9m omni.jar jsloader && /usr/bin/python2.7 /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-7.0.1-r1/work/mozilla-release/config/optimizejars.py --optimize /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-7.0.1-r1/work/mozilla-release/obj-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/browser/installer/../../jarlog//en-US ./ ./ && mv binary.manifest components && printf "manifest components/binary.manifest\n" > chrome.manifest The error is: /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-7.0.1-r1/work/mozilla-release/obj-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/dist/bin/xpcshell: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-7.0.1-r1/work/mozilla-release/obj-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/browser/installer/../../dist/bin/libxul.so) make[1]: *** [install] Error 1 If I run ldd /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-7.0.1-r1/work/mozilla-release/obj-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/browser/installer/../../dist/bin/libxul.so I get the same error as well. gcc-config -l says that I am running x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.5.3 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge firefox Actual Results: error Expected Results: it installs emerge --info ... Portage 2.1.10.11 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/server, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.39-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.39-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_Q_740_@_1.73GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r2, 2.7.2-r3, 3.1.4-r3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5, 4.5.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.39 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.12.2 Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1 skype-eula AdobeFlash-10.1 PUEL Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O6 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-2.2/conf /usr/share/maven-bin-3.0/conf" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O6 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.hoobly.com/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en_US en" MAKEOPTS="-j16" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync29.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa amd64 apache apache2 bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups curl cxx dbus dri dvd evdev extensions extras fam firefox fortran gd gdbm gnome gnutls gpm gtk hal iconv icu ipv6 ithreads java java6 jpeg jpeg2k lame laptop ldap mmx modules mp3 mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin opengl openmp oss pam pcre php pic png pppd python qt4 readline session snmp spell sse sse2 ssl synaptics sysfs tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode vim-syntax vorbis webkit wifi xinerama xml xorg xulrunner zlib zsh-completion" 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 auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" 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 evdev synaptics evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa" 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, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
For C++ programs, this error usually means you've emerged a few packages with a recent gcc versions, then switched to an older one. Obviously, that doesn't work.
Actually I had an old /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 pointing to an old so ... Not a bug