When trying to emerge rpm-4.2.1: make[4]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/rpm-4.2.1/work/rpm-4.2.1/popt/intl' make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/rpm-4.2.1/work/rpm-4.2.1/popt/intl' Making all in po make[4]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/rpm-4.2.1/work/rpm-4.2.1/popt/po' make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/rpm-4.2.1/work/rpm-4.2.1/popt/po' make[4]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/rpm-4.2.1/work/rpm-4.2.1/popt' make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/rpm-4.2.1/work/rpm-4.2.1/popt' make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/rpm-4.2.1/work/rpm-4.2.1/popt' make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/rpm-4.2.1/work/rpm-4.2.1/popt' Making all in rpmio make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/rpm-4.2.1/work/rpm-4.2.1/rpmio' /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -mtune=athlon-mp -O3 -pipe -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-char-subscripts -L/usr/lib -o librpmio.la -rpath /usr/lib -release 4.2 -lbeecrypt ../file/libfmagic.la ../zlib/libz.la -lrt -lpthread argv.lo digest.lo fts.lo macro.lo rpmio.lo rpmlog.lo rpmmalloc.lo rpmpgp.lo rpmrpc.lo rpmsw.lo strcasecmp.lo stubs.lo url.lo ugid.lo -lrt -lpthread -L../zlib -L/usr/local/lib -lbz2 libtool: link: `argv.lo' is not a valid libtool object make[2]: *** [librpmio.la] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/rpm-4.2.1/work/rpm-4.2.1/rpmio' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/rpm-4.2.1/work/rpm-4.2.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge rpm-4.2.1 2. 3. Actual Results: Emerge failed with the error posted above. Expected Results: Emerged rpm-4.2.1 Portage 2.0.51_rc7 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) MP 1900+ 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-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mtune=athlon-mp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /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/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mtune=athlon-mp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks keeptemp keepwork sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bzlib calendar canna cdr cjk crypt cscope cups curl dbm dga directfb divx4linux dvd dvdr encode esd ethereal evo fbcon flac flash flatfile foomaticdb freetds freewnn ftp gb gd gdbm gif gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 iconv icq imagemagick imap imlib innodb jabber java jikes jpeg junit kde kerberos ldap lesstif libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox mcal mhash mikmod mime ming mmap mmx motif mozilla mpeg msn mssql mysql mysqli ncurses nls odbc offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcntl pcre pda pdflib perl php plotutils png posix postgres python qt quicktime readline samba sasl scanner sdl session shared simplexml slang snmp soap sockets spell ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff tokenizer truetype unicode usb vhosts wmf wxwindows x86 xine xinerama xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xpm xprint xsl xv xvid zlib"
After reading your bug report I tried emerging app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 and it worked just fine for me. # emerge info Portage 2.0.51_rc7 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.8.1-ck9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8.1-ck9 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.70GHz 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 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /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/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fpermissive" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://cs.ubishops.ca:2121/pub/gentoo ftp://gentoo.risq.qc.ca http://adelie.polymtl.ca ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/unix/Linux/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com http://gentoo.mirrored.ca ftp://gentoo.agsn.ca ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.ca.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aim alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib calendar cdinstall cdr cdrom chroot cpdflib crypt cups dba directfb divx4linux dv dvdread encode esd f77 faac faad fbcon fbdev ffmpeg flac flash foomaticdb ftp gcj gcl gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile i8x0 imlib jabber java javascript jikes jpeg kde libdsk libg++ libwww lzw-tiff mad md5sum mhash mikmod motif mozaccess mozcalendar mozctl mozdomi mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mpeg mpeg4 mplayer msn music mysql nas native ncurses net nethack nls nocd noexperimental nojoystick nomac noreiserfs ntlm oav offensive oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pdflib perl php png posix postgres pthreads python qt quicktime readline ruby sdl slang sndfile snmp sockets spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex threads truetype usb vanilla x86 xml xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid yahoo zlib"
Is this still an issue?
Nope, error seems to have disappeared. It's been a while, so it must've been fixed in a sync a while ago. I'll close the bug, thanks for checking up.