`emerge -u ppp` fails to build ppp-2.4.2-r9: >>> emerge (33 of 91) net-dialup/ppp-2.4.2-r9 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) ppp-2.4.2.tar.gz >>> md5 src_uri ;-) ppp-2.4.2-mppe-mppc-1.1.patch.gz >>> md5 src_uri ;-) ppp-dhcpc.tgz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking ppp-2.4.2.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/ppp-2.4.2-r9/work >>> Unpacking ppp-2.4.2-mppe-mppc-1.1.patch.gz to /var/tmp/portage/ppp-2.4.2-r9/work >>> Unpacking ppp-dhcpc.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/ppp-2.4.2-r9/work * Applying cbcp-dosfix.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying mpls.patch.gz ... [ ok ] * Applying killaddr-smarter.patch.gz ... [ ok ] * Applying cflags.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying control_c.patch ... [ ok ] atm * Enabling PPPoATM support * Applying pppoatm-2.diff.gz ... [ ok ] * Disabling active-filter pam * Enabling PAM * Enabling CBCP * Enabling radius >>> Source unpacked. * Using GNU config files from /usr/share/libtool * Updating pppd/plugins/radius/radiusclient/config.sub [ ok ] * Updating pppd/plugins/radius/radiusclient/config.guess [ ok ] ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib . . . gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DRC_CONFIG_FILE=\"/etc/radiusclient/radiusclient.conf\" -DRC_SECURE_PATH=\"/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin\" -I. -I../include -I.. -march=pentium3 -O2 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -c radacct.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DRC_CONFIG_FILE=\"/etc/radiusclient/radiusclient.conf\" -DRC_SECURE_PATH=\"/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin\" -I. -I../include -I.. -march=pentium3 -O2 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -c radexample.c /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -march=pentium3 -O2 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -Wl,-z,now -o radlogin radlogin.o radius.o local.o ../lib/libradiusclient.la -lcrypt -lnsl /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -march=pentium3 -O2 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -Wl,-z,now -o radstatus radstatus.o ../lib/libradiusclient.la -lcrypt -lnsl mkdir .libs mkdir .libs gcc -march=pentium3 -O2 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -Wl,-z,now -o .libs/radstatus radstatus.o -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/lib ../lib/.libs/libradiusclient.so -lcrypt -lnsl mkdir: cannot create directory `.libs': File exists make[2]: *** [radlogin] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... creating radstatus make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ppp-2.4.2-r9/work/ppp-2.4.2/pppd/plugins/radius/radiusclient/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ppp-2.4.2-r9/work/ppp-2.4.2/pppd/plugins/radius/radiusclient' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 !!! ERROR: net-dialup/ppp-2.4.2-r9 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 84, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge ppp 2. 3. # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.8-epia1-gentoo-r10-jr i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-epia1-gentoo-r10-jr i686 VIA Nehemiah Gentoo Base System version 1.6.6 distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" 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/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa apache2 apm atm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib cdr crypt cups dbase dga directfb divx4linux doc dvd emacs encode f77 fbcon foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib java jikes jpeg ldap libg++ libwww lirc mad maildir mailwrapper mbox mhash mikmod mmap mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pcre pdflib perl php pic png pnp python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sasl sdl shared slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype unicode usb vhosts x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xsl xv xvid zlib"
Just ran `emerge sync` again and tried again - it built perfectly this time. No mention in the ChangeLog of a relevant change, but has this been quietly fixed or was it just some bizarre side-effect of parallel make or distcc or something?
no idea why that happened. Seems that make tried to create .libs directory and failed because already existed. I released -r8 and -r9 with ebuilds identically with -r7. The only changes I've made were in ip-up and ip-down scripts and issue new release only for forcing updates of this scripts. I'm closing this bug because it seemed to be a mysterious glitch. I cannot reproduce it and neither the reporter.
I ran into the exact same problem with ppp-2.4.2-r10. Emerging worked on the second try without doing sync again before.
