When I try to emerge nvidia-settings, I get a whole host of errors relating to modification times of atk, pango and to "too many open files" in pkgconfig. For the record, nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel install just fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Actual Results: Emerge fails. Expected Results: Emerge should have completed successfully. $ emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6. 8-rc2-love3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-rc2-love3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1300MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /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="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/ Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/trunk" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa apm avi berkdb bzlib crypt directfb dvd encode esd fbcon gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xosd xv zlib"
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this is not critical, it's a freaking gui tweakutility. What is the modification time of the headers it is complaining about. It shouldn't be in the future at least, make doesn't react well to that (as you can see).
Critical was listed as "The software crashes or hangs" which is what this did; I didn't mean to imply that it was drastically important. Sorry. Knowing that make doesn't respond well to future times (I didn't know that, think it's silly, and curse my stupid computer clock troubles), I recompiled the packages about which it was complaining and now it installs fine. :) Guess I'll just have to check my clock before emerging anything. Marked as FIXED.