Hi, Bot the x86 and ~x86 version of rxvt-unicode fail with the following error checking for pty.h... yes checking wchar.h usability... yes checking wchar.h presence... yes checking for wchar.h... yes checking cwchar usability... yes checking cwchar presence... yes checking for cwchar... yes checking clocale usability... yes checking clocale presence... yes checking for clocale... yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking whether termios.h and sys/ioctl.h may both be included... yes checking for -rpath dynamic library path recording... no checking for -R dynamic library path recording... no checking for XPointer... yes checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for inline... inline checking for mode_t... yes checking for pid_t... yes checking for uid_t in sys/types.h... yes checking for short... yes checking size of short... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (short), 77 See `config.log' for more details. !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /var/tmp/portage/rxvt-unicode-5.3/work/rxvt-unicode-5.3/config.log !!! ERROR: x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-5.3 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 937: Called src_compile rxvt-unicode-5.3.ebuild, line 60: Called econf '--enable-everything' '--enable-rxvt-scroll' '--enable-next-scroll' '--enable-xterm-scroll' '--enable-transparency' '--enable-xpm-background' '--enable-fading' '--enable-utmp' '--enable-wtmp' '--enable-mousewheel' '--enable-slipwheeling' '--enable-smart-resize' '--enable-ttygid' '--enable-256-color' '--enable-xim' '--enable-shared' '--enable-keepscrolling' '--enable-xft' '--disable-xgetdefault' '--disable-text-blink' '--disable-menubar' ebuild.sh, line 540: Called die !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. BTW after building rxvt-unicode with --as-needed disabled it builds fine even with --as-needed enabled (probably due to confcache being enabled). My emerge --info: Riemann momsen # emerge --info Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17.7-reiser4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17.7-reiser4 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:30:08 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: 0.4.2-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: 2.16.1-r3, 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-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 /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/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache confcache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,-Bdirect" LINGUAS="" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes" 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://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics kernel_linux minimal mmx nls pic sse sse2 truetype unicode userland_GNU video_cards_i810" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL
Created attachment 99738 [details] my config.log
<snip> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: BFD 2.16.1 assertion fail /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.1-r3/work/binutils-2.16.1/bfd/elflink.c:2356 </snip> Your binutils is too old for as-needed. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115603 ***
