Emerging ffmpeg on the default 2005.0 profile does not compile it with the -fPIC flag which I do believe is required on x86_64. Emerging it with USE="pic" fixes it however. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Using default AMD64 2005.0 profile: 1. emerge ffmpeg Actual Results: Compile failure Expected Results: Compile correctly Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1, 2.6.11-nitro2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-nitro2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 4 2005, 20:56:19)] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.9.4, 1.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X acl acpi aim alsa arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bmp bonobo bzlib canna cdr cjk crypt cups curl dga directfb dvd dvdr emacs encode esd ethereal evo exif fam flac font-server fortran ftp gif gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack java jp2 jpeg junit kde kerberos ldap libwww lzw lzw-tiff mozilla mp3 mpeg msn mssql ncurses nls nptl offensive oggvorbis openal opengl oscar pam pda pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sasl scanner sdl soap sockets spell ssl svg tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales videos xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xpm xrandr xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
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