I installed the i686 stage 3 tarball of 2004.1. Upon recompiling the system (emerge -Ude world), I get the following. stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/ -B/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -march=pentium2 -pipe -O2 -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -pedantic -Wno-long-long -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -o f771 f/bad.o f/bit.o f/bld.o f/com.o f/data.o f/equiv.o f/expr.o f/global.o f/implic.o f/info.o f/intrin.o f/lab.o f/lex.o f/malloc.o f/name.o f/parse.o f/src.o f/st.o f/sta.o f/stb.o f/stc.o f/std.o f/ste.o f/storag.o f/stp.o f/str.o f/sts.o f/stt.o f/stu.o f/stv.o f/stw.o f/symbol.o f/target.o f/top.o f/type.o f/where.o main.o libbackend.a ../libiberty/libiberty.a collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [f771] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.2-r5/work/build/gcc' make[1]: *** [stage2_build] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.2-r5/work/build/gcc' make: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2 !!! ERROR: sys-devel/gcc-3.3.2-r5 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 435, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Portage 2.0.50-r7 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="accounting acpi alsa antlr apache2 async berkdb bonobo cddb cdr chroot clamav crypt cups curl encode f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome idea imlib java javacomm javamail javascript jpeg jta junit kerberos ldap libg++ libwww log4j mad maildir mikmod mmx mono ncurses nls oggvorbis oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python readline samba sdl servlet-2.3 servlet-2.4 slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd transparent-proxy truetype usb x86 xml2 yahoo zlib"
Please try gcc-3.3.3, and let us know if this keeps popping up.
Re comment #1 No feedback from user. Assuming bug is fixed. Closing bug as FIXED.