Portage 2.1.1_pre1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-suspend2-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-suspend2-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] 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-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch prelink sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="es_ES.utf8" LC_ALL="es_ES.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="es" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.1/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi alsa avi bash-completion beagle berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cjk cli crypt cups dbus dlloader dri eds emboss encode fbsplash foomaticdb fortran gcj gdbm gif gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg libg++ libwww logrotate mad mikmod mmx mono motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl objc ogg opengl oss pam pcmcia pcre pdflib perl png pppd python quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse ssl symlink tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis xinerama xml xmms xorg xprint xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics input_devices_evdev kernel_linux linguas_es userland_GNU video_cards_ati video_cards_radeon" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY I was trying the --as-needed ldflag with gaim and it seems that when I try to log in with MSN it can't find openssl library.
Forgot to write, gaim 1.5.0
did you try gaim 2.0 ?
as-needed support is available in 2.0.0_beta3 and will be in 2.0.0 final release (per upstream) which is supposed to be released soon. So backporting the patch will not be done.