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Bug 73914

Summary: Failed: emerge sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 to / WITH msg /i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:.libs/archive.o: file format not recognized; treatingas linker script
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: peter Richetta <richetta>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: complete log of emerfe

Description peter Richetta 2004-12-09 08:02:32 UTC
Syntax error in /i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:.libs/archive.o: file format not recognized; The file tail follows; file appears incomplete:
STARTCHAR question
ENCODING 63
SWIDTH 640 0
DWIDTH 4 0
BBX 4 6 0 -1
BITMAP
C0
20
40
00
40
00
ENDCHAR
STARTCHAR

Patches thru 93 appeared to apply OK.  Here is elbtool/log:
patching file /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3/work/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1/ltmain.sh
Hunk #1 succeeded at 4861 (offset 1399 lines).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge  -ua world
2. y
3.
Actual Results:  
/ld:.libs/archive.o:2: syntax error

Expected Results:  
completed emerge of binutils
sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 to /

Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
2.4.26-gentoo-r12 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.26-gentoo-r12 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19-r1,sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=athlon -pipe "
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /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/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=athlon -pipe "
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo
ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com http://gentoo.eliteitminds.com
ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/
http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X Xaw3d aalib alsa arts avi bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cscope cups doc
dvb dvd dvdr encode esd f77 fam flac foomaticbd foomaticdb fortran gif gnome
gphoto2 gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib java jikes jpeg junit
kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss
pam pdflib perl plotutils png ppds python qt quicktime readline ruby scanner sdl
slang snmp spell sse ssl svga tcl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff tk truetype usb x86
xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv zlib video_cards_matrox"
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-12-09 15:44:05 UTC
you've posted an incomplete log of what happened ...

please run `emerge binutils >& log` and post the log file as an attachment
Comment 2 peter Richetta 2004-12-10 13:06:29 UTC
Created attachment 45695 [details]
complete log of emerfe