I tried to emerge imagemagick-6.0.8.3 but it failed. I also tried older versions 6.0.8.1 and 6.0.7.1 and both also failed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge imagemagick Actual Results: error message: {standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:3458: Error: value of ffffffffffffff7c too large for field of 1 bytes at 000000000000257e make[1]: *** [magick/mogrify.lo] Error 1 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/imagemagick-6.0.8.3/work/ImageMagick-6.0.8' make: *** [all] Error 2 Expected Results: No error should happen. Portage 2.0.51_rc1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.4.26-gentoo-r9 i586) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26-gentoo-r9 i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D+ Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.22,sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=k6-3 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/tomcat/conf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=k6-3 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache digest sandbox userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp/ http://ftp.gentoo.or.kr/" MAKEOPTS="-j4 -l2.5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /work/portagejp" SYNC="rsync://rsync.jp.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/" USE="3dnow X apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cjk crypt cups doc emacs encode esd foomaticdb freewnn gcl gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg leim libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"
I found upgrading gcc to 3.4.2 solves the problem. So, I think ImageMagick hit a bug in gcc 3.3.4. Portage 2.0.51_rc1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.4.26-gentoo-r9 i586) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26-gentoo-r9 i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D+ Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.22,sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=k6-3 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/tomcat/conf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k6-3 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache digest sandbox userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp/ http://ftp.gentoo.or.kr/" MAKEOPTS="-j4 -l2.5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /work/portagejp" SYNC="rsync://rsync.jp.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/" USE="3dnow X apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cjk crypt cups doc emacs encode esd foomaticdb freewnn gcl gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg leim libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"
I had tested this on gcc-3.4.2 and gcc-3.4.1 and didn't expirienced any problems.