This was one of the many ebuilds that complained : grep: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3/libstdc++.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3/libstdc++.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3/libstdc++.la' is not a valid libtool archive make[2]: *** [libenchant_aspell.la] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/enchant-1.1.6/work/enchant-1.1.6/src/aspell' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/enchant-1.1.6/work/enchant-1.1.6/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 !!! ERROR: app-text/enchant-1.1.6 failed. !!! Function gnome2_src_compile, Line 40, Exitcode 2 !!! compile failure !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Contents of /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/ total 2 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 768 Jul 20 2004 3.3.4 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Apr 10 02:45 3.4.3-20050110 gcc-config -c i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.3-20050110 I might have missed something...why is libtool looking for 3.4.3? I just added a symlink in /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/ that 3.4.3 was 3.4.3-20050110 and everything works fine. emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1, 2.6.11ac1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11ac1 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.10 Python: dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5,dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Feb 20 2005, 07:31:41)] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r8 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.14 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.22, 2.6.8.1-r4, 2.4.19-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -mmmx -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /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/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -mmmx -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bonobo cdr crypt cscope cups curl emboss encode esd ethereal fam fbcon foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib imlib2 innodb ipv6 javascript jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mbox md5sum mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mysql ncurses nls nvidia odbc offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vanilla x86 xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib linguas_en" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
You didn't run fix_libtool_files.sh like the gcc ebuild told you to. ;-)