I am using catalyst and it is using genkernel to build kernel images. I've updated portage snapshot recently and now genkernel fails with ERROR: Configure of dmraid failed! from config.log: configure:9118: gcc -o conftest -O2 -I/var/tmp/genkernel/11834.731.32169.353/lvm/include -I/var/tmp/genkernel/11 834.731.32169.353/lvm/include -L/var/tmp/genkernel/11834.731.32169.353/lvm/lib -L/var/tmp/genkernel/11834.731.32 169.353/lvm/lib conftest.c -ldevmapper-event -ldevmapper >&5 /usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.3/../../../../lib/libdevmapper-event.so: undefined reference to `dm_task_get_ info_with_deferred_remove@Base' dm_task_get_info_with_deferred_remove is really not present in shipped LVM 2.02.88 (but is in 2.02.116 from main portage tree) Options: --lvm --dmraid --mdadm --makeopts=-j9 --no-debug-cleanup --cachedir=/tmp/kerncache/cfgkrnl-genkernel_cache-2016.6 --no-mountboot --kerneldir=/usr/src/linux --modulespackage=/tmp/kerncache/cfgkrnl-modules-2016.6.tar.bz2 --minkernpackage=/tmp/kerncache/cfgkrnl-kernel-initrd-2016.6.tar.bz2 all --kerncache=/tmp/kerncache/cfgkrnl-kerncache-2016.6.tar.bz2 --kernel-config=/var/tmp/cfgkrnl.config Reproducible: Always
This seems to me to be more like a dmraid bug than a genkernel one..
dmraid-1.0.0_rc16-r3 by itself compiles successfully (with lvm2-2.02.116). I guess it won't with lvm2 prior to 2.02.96 (or .97), but genkernel comes with dmraid-1.0.0_rc16-r3 and lvm-2.02.88, so it looks like genkernel issue to me.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 631368 ***