During an "emerge world -u" today, I got this on vim-6.2-r6: gcc -rdynamic -L/usr/local/lib -o vim objects/buffer.o objects/charset.o objects/diff.o objects/digraph.o objects/edit.o objects/eval.o objects/ex_cmds.o objects/ex_cmds2.o objects/ex_docmd.o objects/ex_eval.o objects/ex_getln.o objects/fileio.o objects/fold.o objects/getchar.o objects/if_cscope.o objects/if_xcmdsrv.o objects/main.o objects/mark.o objects/memfile.o objects/memline.o objects/menu.o objects/message.o objects/misc1.o objects/misc2.o objects/move.o objects/mbyte.o objects/normal.o objects/ops.o objects/option.o objects/os_unix.o objects/pathdef.o objects/quickfix.o objects/regexp.o objects/screen.o objects/search.o objects/syntax.o objects/tag.o objects/term.o objects/ui.o objects/undo.o objects/window.o objects/if_perl.o objects/if_perlsfio.o objects/if_python.o objects/py_config.o objects/netbeans.o objects/version.o -lnsl -lncurses -ldl -rdynamic -L/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i686-linux/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a -L/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i686-linux/CORE -lperl -lpthread -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc -L/usr/lib/python2.3/config -lpython2.3 -lpthread -ldl -lutil -lm -Xlinker -export-dynamic /usr/lib/python2.3/config/libpython2.3.a(posixmodule.o)(.text+0x3ff3): In function `posix_tempnam': : warning: the use of `tempnam' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp' /usr/lib/python2.3/config/libpython2.3.a(posixmodule.o)(.text+0x40b1): In function `posix_tmpnam': : warning: the use of `tmpnam_r' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp' /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i686-linux/CORE/libperl.so: undefined reference to `__builtin_va_start' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status distcc[7168] ERROR: compile on localhost failed make[1]: *** [vim] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/vim-6.2-r6/work/vim62/src' make: *** [first] Error 2 !!! ERROR: app-editors/vim-6.2-r6 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 248, Exitcode 2 !!! emake failed Not sure what happened or why. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -u world 2. emerge gets to vim-6.2-r6 3. get aforementioned error Expected Results: successful emerge world -u including vim-6.2-r6 My emerge info: Portage 2.0.50_pre21 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040117-r0, 2.4.22-gentoo-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 distcc 2.12.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.8 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 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="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo http://gentoo.noved.org/" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acpi avi berkdb cdr crypt dvb encode gdbm gif gstreamer jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis pam perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl ssl tcpd tiff unicode usb x86 xml2 zlib" I also tried with ccache and distcc disabled which sometimes helps in situations like this. Unfortunately, no luck.
Try remerging perl prior to emerging vim
I think remerging perl is the key. Please re-open if this continues to be a problem.
