When I try to emerge a package, it stops on configure, and says: checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables. Happens sometimes while doing emerge -Uv. I'm using ~x86. I think it started happening after I upgraded to the newest glibc (glibc-2.3.3_pre20040117). Strange thing is that gcc compiled. I can reproduce it with ncurses and freetype. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Get glibc 2.3.3_pre20040117 2. Use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" 3. emerge -Uv world Actual Results: It didn't compile. Expected Results: Compile? ;-) hiding portage # emerge info Portage 2.0.50_pre21 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040117-r0, 2.6.1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.1 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.8 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -force-mem -frerun-loop-opt -frerun-cse-after-loop -ffast-math" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -force-mem -frerun-loop-opt -frerun-cse-after-loop -ffast-math" 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 aalib alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde lame ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mitshm mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib" --- More info in the urls. --- My pc configuration: Celeron 1,7GHz, 512 MB ram.
cc1: error: unrecognized option `-force-mem' fix your CFLAGS