# emerge -vp util-vserver These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] sys-cluster/util-vserver-0.30.205-r1 -glibc 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB when I emerge the package without -p, then I get diet i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=athlon-mp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-stack-protector -std=c99 -Wall -pedantic -W -o src/keep-ctx-alive src/keep-ctx-alive.o lib/libvserver.a src/keep-ctx-alive.o(.text+0x1fa): In function `main': : undefined reference to `socket' src/keep-ctx-alive.o(.text+0x22b): In function `main': : undefined reference to `connect' [..] collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [src/keep-ctx-alive] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
my dietlibc was broken; after re emerging dietlibc, vserver compiled fine.