When upgrading to kde 3.4.1 I was hit by a strange problem. it seems kdevelop (3.2.1) failed to compile on my system and throws this kind of error on emerge: ======== make[4]: Entering directory `/var/portage/kdevelop-3.2.1/work/kdevelop-3.2.1/ parts/appwizard/common' gnutar -cf gnu.tar -C ./gnu AUTHORS COPYING \ ChangeLog INSTALL NEWS README TODO gnutar: Will not overwrite non empty plain files in compat mode. make[4]: *** [gnu.tar.gz] Error 255 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/portage/kdevelop-3.2.1/work/kdevelop-3.2.1/ parts/appwizard/common' ======== I give also a try to the 3.2.0 with identical results. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge kdevelop 2. 3.
Do you have app-arch/star installed?
See comment #1