When I try to emerge binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 i get errors complaining about mktemp and then it crashes out. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. USE=hardened emerge gcc 2. emerge glibc 3. emerge binutils Actual Results: The error I got was : bucomm.o(.text+0x611): In function `make_tempname': : warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp' creating objdump gcc -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -mcpu=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe -O3 -o .libs/ranlib ar.o is-ranlib.o arparse.o arlex.o arsup.o rename.o binemul.o emul_vanilla.o bucomm.o version.o filemode.o ../bfd/.libs/libbfd.so -L/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1/work/binutils-2.14.90.0.8/libiberty/pic -liberty ../libiberty/libiberty.a -lfl -ldl bucomm.o(.text+0x611): In function `make_tempname': : warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp' creating ranlib make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1/work/binutils-2.14.90.0.8/binutils' make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1/work/binutils-2.14.90.0.8/binutils' make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1/work/binutils-2.14.90.0.8/binutils' !!! ERROR: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 83, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Expected Results: emerged binutils [~]# emerge -pv gcc binutils glibc These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-3.3.2-r5 -X -bootstrap -build -gcj -java -multilib +nls -static 0 kB [ebuild R ] sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 -bootstrap -build -multitarget +nls 0 kB [ebuild R ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r9 -build +nls +nptl -pic 18 kB [~]# emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.6-mm5) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.6-mm5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.90GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe -O3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /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/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe -O3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc sandbox userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.vic.keypoint.com.au" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl apache2 berkdb bidi cap chroot crypt dnsdb doc evms2 gdbm gmp hardened idea imap ipv6 ldap libg++ libwww lmtp maildir mmx nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-ssh ncurses nls nptl odbc pam pcap pcre perl pthreads pwdb python readline regexp sasl skey slang snmp spell ssl tcpd tetex threads unicode usb x86 xml2 zlib"
this problem was due to a bad ulimit setting
