The emerge of octave-3.4.3-r1 aborted in its linking stage, claiming it couldn't link against libranlib.la. A quick search indicates that there's a fix for it upstream so I'll try building one of the masked versions before investigating further. [ebuild U ] sci-mathematics/octave-3.4.3-r1 [3.2.4-r1] USE="X%* curl glpk%* imagemagick%* opengl openmp%* qhull%* qrupdate%* readline sparse* zlib -doc -fftw -static-libs% (-emacs%) (-fltk%) (-test%) (-xemacs%)" Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 306937 [details] emerge --info
Created attachment 306939 [details] build.log
seems like it was a case of not running with MAKEOPTS=-j1.