emerging sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.0-r2 fails on ia64 with the following error: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/ia64-unknown-linux-gnu/3.3.3/../../../../ia64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot open crtbeginT.o: No such file or directory I did a "locate crtbegin", which found: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/ia64-unknown-linux-gnu/3.3.3/crtbegin.o /usr/lib/gcc-lib/ia64-unknown-linux-gnu/3.3.3/crtbeginS.o but no crtbeginT.o. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge module-init-tools Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-ia64-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5 ia64 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ia64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="ia64-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/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp. belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente. nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http: //gentoo.tiscali.nl/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tiscali.nl/pub/mirror/gentoo http://www. fhh.opensource-mirror.de/gentoo.org/ ftp://ftp.fhh.opensource-mirror. de/pub/gentoo.org/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik. tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp. uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://ftp6.uni-erlangen. de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp6.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp. join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.join. uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp6.uni-muenster. de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.ipv6.uni-muenster. de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/data2/var_tmp_portage" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X berkdb crypt cups f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk2 ia64 imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mikmod motif ncurses nls opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl tcpd truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib"
gcc-3.3.3 and gcc-3.3.4 are broken on ia64 atm ... downgrade to latest stable or unstable version of gcc and this is fixed (basically any version of gcc-3.3.2)