compiling glibc-2.3.5-r3 fails reporting a lot of lines of this one: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/alpha-unknown-linux-gnu/3.3.2/../../../../alpha-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r3/work/build-default-alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-nptl/libc_pic.os: TLS local exec code cannot be linked into shared objects and a bottom line: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/alpha-unknown-linux-gnu/3.3.2/../../../../alpha-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output Reproduceable: yes, always Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/alpha/2006.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r12, 2.6.9-ac9 alpha) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-ac9 alpha EV56 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r5 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.3-r3, 1.5.2-r7 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="alpha" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mcpu=ev56 -O3 -pipe " CHOST="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=ev56 -O3 -pipe " DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-ilmenau.de/Mirrors/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="alpha acl apache2 arts berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 crypt cups eds encode esd ev56 expat fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gmp gpm gstreamer gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
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