Despite having a 'static-libs' USE flags, e2fsprogs doesn't use it, but does the following unconditionally: # configure doesn't have an option to disable static libs :/ find "${D}" -name '*.a' -delete This is a problem as yaboot needs a static libext2fs.a to build: ld -Ttext 0x100000 -Bstatic -melf32ppclinux second/crt0.o second/yaboot.o second/cache.o second/prom.o second/file.o second/partition.o second/fs.o second/cfg.o second/setjmp.o second/cmdline.o second/fs_of.o second/fs_ext2.o second/fs_iso.o second/fs_swap.o second/iso_util.o lib/nonstd.o lib/nosys.o lib/string.o lib/strtol.o lib/vsprintf.o lib/ctype.o lib/malloc.o lib/strstr.o lib/ssp.o second/md5.o second/fs_xfs.o second/fs_reiserfs.o -lext2fs `powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -m32 -print-libgcc-file-name` -o second/yaboot ld: cannot find -lext2fs Reproducible: Always Portage 2.2.0_alpha84 (default/linux/powerpc/ppc64/10.0/32bit-userland/desktop, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.14.1-r2, 3.2.5-gentoo.omega ppc64) 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It looks like sys-fs/e2fsprogs should not have IUSE=static-libs at all. sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs, however, does have it.
Sorry, I missed a couple of lines there.
should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report! Commit message: Fix thinko in USE=static-libs handling http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.42.1.ebuild?r1=1.1&r2=1.2 http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.42.ebuild?r1=1.5&r2=1.6
should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report! Commit message: Fix thinko in USE=static-libs handling http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-fs/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.42.1.ebuild?r1=1.1&r2=1.2 http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-fs/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.42.ebuild?r1=1.5&r2=1.6