The build fails with : * Configuring GLIBC for linuxthreads with: --with-tls --with-__thread --enable-add-ons=linuxthreads,c_stubs,libidn --enable-kernel=2.4.1 --without-cvs --enable-bind-now --build=powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu --host=powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu --disable-profile --without-gd --with-headers=/usr/include --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --libexecdir=/usr/lib/misc/glibc [...] powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc newlocale.c -c -std=gnu99 -O2 -Wall -Winline -Wstrict-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -freorder-blocks -mcpu=7400 -pipe -mnew-mnemonics -DLOCALE_PATH='"/usr/lib/locale:/usr/share/i18n"' -DLOCALEDIR='"/usr/lib/locale"' -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH='"/usr/share/locale"' -DCHARMAP_PATH='"/usr/share/i18n/charmaps"' -DREPERTOIREMAP_PATH='"/usr/share/i18n/repertoiremaps"' -DLOCSRCDIR='"/usr/share/i18n/locales"' -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Iprograms -I../include -I. -I/home/portage/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/locale -I.. -I../libio -I/home/portage/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-linuxthreads -I../sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/elf -I../sysdeps/powerpc/elf -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc32 -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/pthread -I../sysdeps/pthread -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32 -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/powerpc -I../libidn/sysdeps/unix -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc32 -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux -I../sysdeps/gnu -I../sysdeps/unix/common -I../sysdeps/unix/mman -I../sysdeps/unix/inet -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv -I../sysdeps/unix/powerpc -I../sysdeps/unix -I../sysdeps/posix -I../sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/fpu -I../sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32 -I../sysdeps/wordsize-32 -I../sysdeps/powerpc/soft-fp -I../sysdeps/powerpc/fpu -I../sysdeps/powerpc -I../sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32 -I../sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64 -I../sysdeps/ieee754 -I../sysdeps/generic/elf -I../sysdeps/generic -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.3-20050110/include -isystem /usr/include -D_LIBC_REENTRANT -include ../include/libc-symbols.h -DPIC -o /home/portage/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/locale/newlocale.o -MD -MP -MF /home/portage/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/locale/newlocale.o.dt -MT /home/portage/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/locale/newlocale.o In file included from ../socket/sys/socket.h:27, from ../include/sys/socket.h:2, from ../inet/netinet/in.h:24, from ../include/netinet/in.h:3, from ../resolv/resolv.h:57, from ../include/resolv.h:11, from ../linuxthreads/descr.h:19, from ../linuxthreads/sysdeps/powerpc/tls.h:130, from ../include/tls.h:6, from ../include/errno.h:22, from ../string/argz.h:26, from ../include/argz.h:3, from newlocale.c:22: ../include/sys/uio.h:5: warning: `altivec' attribute ignored ../include/sys/uio.h:7: warning: `altivec' attribute ignored ../include/sys/uio.h:9: warning: `altivec' attribute ignored ../include/sys/uio.h:11: warning: `altivec' attribute ignored {standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:190: Error: symbol `.LTLS0' is already defined make[2]: *** [/home/portage/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/locale/newlocale.o] Error 1 Found another reference to .LTLS0 on the net leading to a gcc bug : http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20611 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: # gcc-config -l [1] powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-3.3.3 [2] powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-3.4.3-20050110 * [3] powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-3.4.3-20050110-hardenednopie [4] powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-3.4.3-20050110-hardenednossp [5] powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-3.4.3-20050110-vanilla # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.20-r5 (default-linux/ppc/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 ppc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 ppc 7455, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.6.11 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.90.0.3-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc ~ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=7400 -maltivec -mabi=altivec" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=7400 -maltivec -mabi=altivec" DISTDIR="/home/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/portage/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X X509 a52 aac aalib alsa altivec async bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr chroot crypt cups curl dga dillo directfb dlloader dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread edl emboss encode erandom esd exif faac faad fam fb fbcon ffmpeg fla flac foomaticdb fortran freetype gd gdbm ggi gif gimpprint gnome gphoto2 gpm graphviz gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal hardened imagemagick imlib java javascript jp2 jpeg lcms libcaca live lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad mailwrapper matroska md5sum mime mjpeg mng motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mplayer ncurses network nls nptl ntlm odbc offensive ogg opengl pam pdflib perl pg-hier physfs pic pie png ppc ppds pthreads python quicktime radeon readline rtc sdl session sftplogging slang smime speex spell ssl stencil-buffer svg tcltk tcpd tga theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales utf8 v4l v4l2 vorbis wmf xanim xface xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xpm xprint xv xvid zlib video_cards_radeon" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
Is this still an issue for you with the latest stable gcc and binutils?
Sorry, it has been corrected a long time ago.
Reopening...
to mark fixed.