i tried to emerge wireless-tools today ... it failed: >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking wireless_tools.28.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/wireless-tools-28/work >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/wireless-tools-28/work/wireless_tools.28 ... cp wireless.20.h wireless.h x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=k8 -pipe -Wimplicit-function-declaration -MMD -fPIC -c -o iwlib.so iwlib.c x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: o such file or directory x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: no input files /bin/sh: 01m: command not found make: *** [iwlib.so] Error 127 what you cant see is that starting with the -fPIC, the output is all colored yellow ... this is because the wireless-tools makefile adds '$(WARN)' to $(CFLAGS) but does not set the $(WARN) envvar ... and since portage now pollutes the environment with the color WARN set to $'\e[33;01m', everything falls apart Portage 2.1.1_pre1-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16.9-grsec x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16.9-grsec x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r2 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 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: 2.15.92.0.2-r10, 2.16-r1, 2.16.1, 2.16.1-r2, 2.16.90.0.3, 2.16.91.0.1, 2.16.91.0.2, 2.16.91.0.3, 2.16.91.0.4, 2.16.91.0.5, 2.16.91.0.6, 2.16.91.0.7, 2.16.92, 2.16.93, 2.16.94, 2.17, 2.17.50.0.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.16 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe -Wimplicit-function-declaration" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/vpopmail/domains /var/vpopmail/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests autoconfig ccache cvs distlocks metadata-transfer noinfo sandbox sfperms sign splitdebug" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" INSTALL_MASK="/usr/share/applications /usr/kde/*/share/applications /lib/udev/devices" LANG="en" LC_ALL="en_US" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,-z,relro" LINGUAS="de en es cs" MAKEOPTS="-j6" 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" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://gentoo/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 aac aalib acl adns aio alsa asf audiofile berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cli crypt cups curl dba directfb divx4linux dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode exif fbcon ffmpeg flac flash foomaticdb ftp gd gif glitz glut gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jbig joystick jpeg jpeg2k libcaca libedit lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir matroska mikmod mime mng modplug mp3 mpeg mplayer multislot ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pcre pdf pdflib perl pic png pppd python quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session sndfile spell spl ssl subtitles svg tcltk tcpd tga theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vcd vorbis wmf xanim xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xorg xpm xrandr xv xvid xvmc zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_mouse input_devices_keyboard input_devices_joystick input_devices_void kernel_linux linguas_de linguas_en linguas_es linguas_cs userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_nv video_cards_ati video_cards_r128 video_cards_radeon video_cards_vga video_cards_sisusb" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
This is fixed in svn r3675 and released in 2.1.1_pre1-r5.
*** Bug 138383 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
