I just wanted to emerge samba on a new amd64 machine and while emerging sys-libs/tdb-1.2.9 it stops at Check for -MD and nothing more happens, it just waits infinitely for this step to complete. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge -v sys-libs/tdb-1.2.9 Actual Results: >>> Emerging (9 of 11) sys-libs/tdb-1.2.9 * tdb-1.2.9.tar.gz RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking tdb-1.2.9.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/tdb-1.2.9/work >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/tdb-1.2.9/work >>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/tdb-1.2.9/work/tdb-1.2.9 ... >>> Source prepared. >>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/tdb-1.2.9/work/tdb-1.2.9 ... CCFLAGS="-march=amdfam10 -O2 -pipe" LINKFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" "/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/tdb-1.2.9/work/tdb-1.2.9/buildtools/bin/waf" --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 configure Checking for program gcc or cc : x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc Checking for program ar : x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar Checking for program ranlib : x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib Checking for gcc : ok Checking for program git : /usr/bin/git Check for -MD : ps auxwww shows, that there are two processes with command line /usr/bin/python2.7 /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/tdb-1.2.9/work/tdb-1.2.9/buildtools/bin/waf --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 configure Manually killing the second (!) of those processes lets configuring continue like nothing happened.
The same occurs for sys-libs/talloc-2.0.7 with the same very dirty workaround.
This is quite a curious situation, please paste the output of emerge --info gcc-config -l I think something is wrong with your gcc...
Sigh... I can't reproduce it on the amd64 machine where it happened before... Even if I unmerge it first and also if I emerge the previous version first and do an update then. Closing the bug then... Sorry for the fuss! larrybox ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.10.49 (hardened/linux/amd64, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.13-r4, 3.2.2-hardened-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.2.2-hardened-r1-x86_64-AMD_Turion-tm-_II_Neo_N40L_Dual-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:45:02 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p20 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3, 3.2.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.8.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.5-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r4 Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=amdfam10 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=amdfam10 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dri gdbm gpm hardened iconv justify mmx modules mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pax_kernel pcre pppd python readline session sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd unicode urandom xorg zlib" 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 authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets 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" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga neomagic nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware dummy v4l" 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, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS larrybox ~ # gcc-config -l [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.5.3 *