linker stuff is hidden here (CXXLD and CCLD), adding --disable-silent-rules solves this
Created attachment 320306 [details] drizzle-7.1.33:20120624-101020.log
Let me see if 7.2.3 works — 7.1.36 is out but I can't get it to work, and 7.2.2-alpha didn't work either.
should be obsolete by http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=1cc39de72ac5311db748341ef9183586556719d9