I am using installation sys-devel/gcc-4.9.1 with sys-devel/make-4.1 which seems to end up in a segfault at arbitrary invocation. Downgrading to sys-devel/make-4.0-r1 seems to resolve the problem. My main system doesn't seem to be affected (same compiler). gdb make GNU gdb (Gentoo 7.8 vanilla) 7.8 Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu". Type "show configuration" for configuration details. For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://bugs.gentoo.org/>. Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>. For help, type "help". Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"... Reading symbols from make...(no debugging symbols found)...done. (gdb) r Starting program: /usr/bin/make warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-vdso.so.1. Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"? Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007ffff78afe8a in strlen () from /lib64/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff78afe8a in strlen () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x00007ffff78afbae in strdup () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #2 0x0000000000417939 in xstrdup () #3 0x00000000004220c3 in define_variable_in_set () #4 0x0000000000406e6a in main () (gdb) q A debugging session is active. Reproducible: Always Portage 2.2.14_rc1 (python 2.7.7-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.9.1, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.13.7-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.13.7-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_X5450_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 32950568 total, 32418380 free KiB Swap: 4194300 total, 4194300 free Timestamp of tree: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 10:30:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.4) 2.24 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p53 dev-lang/perl: 5.20.1-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.7, 3.3.5-r1, 3.4.1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.13.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.13.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.3-r1, 4.9.1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2-r1 sys-devel/make: 4.0-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.13 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.19-r1 Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-3.1/conf" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/tmp/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j9" PKGDIR="/var/tmp/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="acl amd64 berkdb bzip2 caps cli cracklib crypt cxx dri fortran gdbm iconv icu ipv6 lto mmx modules ncurses nptl openmp pcre python2 readline session sse sse2 sse3 sse4 ssl ssse3 tcpd threads unicode vim-syntax zlib" ABI_X86="64" CAMERAS="ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="ati" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" USE_PYTHON="2.7" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, SYNC
Does this still happen with =sys-devel/make-4.1-r1? If yes could you please report this to upstream? http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/make/
