Rather than wasting too much space here, I will direct you to the forum for reports from numerous people sharing this problem. Seems it hasn't been posted in bugzilla yet. The hardware in use in my case is an ibook2. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=141108&highlight= Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-ppc-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.4.22-ben2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-ben2 ppc 745/755 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13p1 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc ~ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-Os -pipe -mcpu=750 -mpowerpc-gfxopt -fsigned-char -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/lib/pbbuttons /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -pipe -mcpu=750 -mpowerpc-gfxopt -fsigned-char -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X apache2 apm cdr crypt cups dga dvd foomaticdb gif gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libwww maildir mozilla moznoirc moznomail moznoxfg mpeg oggvorbis opengl oss pam perl png ppc qt quicktime sdl ssl tetex tiff truetype usb xv zlib"
This bug can be closed. Masking the gcc 3.3.3 branch fixed this problem.
marked as LATER since in the future it could appear again
gcc33 and 2.4-kernel are not supported any more on ppc. Closing this bug.