There was also a backtrace on the screen, but it did not end up in the log. Reproducible: Always # emerge --info Portage 2.2.0_alpha116 (default/linux/powerpc/ppc32/10.0, gcc-4.7.1, glibc-2.14.1-r3, 3.4.4 ppc) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.4.4-ppc-7447A,_altivec_supported-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 13:15:01 +0000 distcc 3.2rc1 powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p29 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.8-r3 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 9999 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.5, 1.12.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r3 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.4 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.14.1-r3 Repositories: gentoo cross gnome x11 gentoo_fixes newstuff Installed sets: @system ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="* ppc ~*" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=7450 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -pipe -flto" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="${EPREFIX}/etc/gconf /etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=7450 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -pipe -flto" DISTDIR="/mnt/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="distlocks fixlafiles parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="" PKGDIR="/var/tmp/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="/mnt/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/mnt/portage/local/cross /mnt/portage/local/gnome /mnt/portage/local/x11 /mnt/portage/local/gentoo_fixes /mnt/portage/local/newstuff" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac alsa altivec avahi bluetooth boost bzip2 cairo consolekit cracklib css cups curl custom-cflags custom-cpuopts custom-optimization cxx dbus dts dvd eds egl encode exceptions expat fbcon ffmpeg flac fortran gif glib gnome gnome-keyring gnome-online-accounts gpm gstreamer gtk gtk3 icu introspection ipv6 jpeg lcms libnotify lzma mp3 nautilus ncurses networkmanager nls nptl offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pcre png policykit postscript ppc python3 qt3support qt4 readline samba speex spell sqlite ssl svg tcl theora threads tiff udev unicode usb vala vorbis xcb xorg xv xvid zeroconf zlib" CURL_SSL="openssl" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
Created attachment 317628 [details] build log The log expands to ~14MB
try with simpler CFLAGS like just "-O2 -pipe"
Ok, for pass #2 I tried CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" and MAKEOPTS="-j1" : same result pass #3 I tried CFLAGS="-O1 -pipe" and LDFLAGS="" : same result
Created attachment 317862 [details] backtrace I was able to cut and paste this from the screen
i've pushed out a new 2.16.0 patchset that lacks a patch that was known to cause crashes in 2.15. please sync up and see if it works any better.
built + installed fine for me after bug 413685 was fixed
