Rather simply, the vlc-0.8.4a-r1 compile process fails with the following errors: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.0/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: BFD 2.16.91.0.6 20060212 assertion fail /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.91.0.6/work/binutils-2.16.91.0.6/bfd/elflink.c:2338 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.0/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: BFD 2.16.91.0.6 20060212 assertion fail /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.91.0.6/work/binutils-2.16.91.0.6/bfd/elflink.c:2339 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.0/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: BFD 2.16.91.0.6 20060212 assertion fail /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.91.0.6/work/binutils-2.16.91.0.6/bfd/elflink.c:2338 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.0/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: BFD 2.16.91.0.6 20060212 assertion fail /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.91.0.6/work/binutils-2.16.91.0.6/bfd/elflink.c:2339 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.0/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: BFD 2.16.91.0.6 20060212 assertion fail 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I am using nxsty's binutils overlay, so it is possible that it is responsible, as I have not tried to compile vlc with the portage binutils. The vlc USE variable when attempting to compile is "X a52 aac alsa dvd fbcon ffmpeg flac hal matroska mp3 mpeg ncurses nsplugin ogg png sdl svg truetype v4l vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xml xv -3dfx -aalib -arts* -avahi -bidi -cdda -cddb -corba -daap -debug -dts -dvb -esd -ggi -gnutls -httpd -joystick* -libcaca -lirc -live -mod -nls -opengl* -oss -rtsp -samba -screen -shout -skins -speex -stream -svga -theora -vcd -vlm -xinerama -xosd" ** Note that the arts, joystick, and opengl flags are set to be removed. This is peculiar, because vlc compiled absolutely fine with those flags set on, with this same binutils. It sounds like a problem with the ebuild to me, although I could be entirely incorrect.** emerge --info is as follows: Portage 2.1_pre9-r3 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.0, glibc-2.4-r2, 2.6.16-beyond2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-beyond2 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2700+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre18 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.91.0.6 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.16 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fgcse-after-reload -msse -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fgcse-after-reload -msse -mfpmath=sse -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,-Bdirect -Wl,-hashvals -Wl,-zdynsort -Wl,--as-needed" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X a52 aac acpi aim alsa apache2 asf avi bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdparanoia cdr cli crypt cups dbus dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb ftp gif glibc-omitfp gpm hal imlib isdnlog jabber jpeg kde kdeenablefinal mad maildir matroska mmx mp3 mpeg msn musepack ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis oscar pcre pdf pdflib perl png ppds pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection scanner sdl session spell spl sse ssl svg truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs x264 xine xml xorg xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_radeon video_cards_ati video_cards_v4l" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
Try with binutils-2.16.92... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115603 ***