USE="-jikes" emerge rhino works It always fails with jikes, I finally saw in the sun-1.5 threads that jikes could be bypassed by negitive USE, since it seems to work Most of the time. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: tux ~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.51_rc7 (default-amd64-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.8-gentoo-r7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r7 x86_64 Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ 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-2.15.92.0.2 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" 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="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi amd64 apache2 apm arts asla audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib calendar caps cdr cjk crypt cups curl curlwrappers dga dio directfb dvd dvdr encode ethereal exif f77 fftw flac flash foomaticdb ftp gb gdbm gif ginac gmp gnome gpm gps gtk gtk2 hardenedphp iconv imagemagick imap imlib inifile jabber java jikes jpeg junit kde lesstif libedit libg++ libwww mad maildir mcal mhash mikmod mime ming mmap mng motif mpeg mpi msn multilib ncurses nls nogcj offensive oggvorbis openal opengl oscar oss pam pcmcia pcre pda pdflib perl php pic pie plotutils png pnp portaudio posix postgres python qt quicktime readline recode samba scanner sdl session shared sharedmem simplexml slang sndfile soap sockets socks5 speex spell spl ssl szip tcltk tcpd theora tiff tokenizer truetype trusted unicode usb wddx wmf xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xosd xpm xprint xv xvid zlib"
Confirmed. I also had this problem, and was able to us USE="-jikes" to resolve it.
fixed you'll have to update jikes too jikes-1.22-r1