compiling pilot-link with --as-needed produces this error when you try to compile evolution against it checking for GNOME_PILOT... yes checking if pilot-link handles UTF-8 conversions... no configure: error: evolution requires pilot-link to have working UTF-8 conversion routines removing that one ldflag and recompiling pilot-link evolution emerges fine JaiBaba-x86 ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.2_pre3-r9 (!../usr/local/overlays/emission/profiles/default-linux/x86/emission-2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.18-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r1 i686 Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 265 Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 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, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17.50.0.6 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse3 -fweb -frename-registers -fgcse-after-reload" 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="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse3 -fweb -frename-registers -fgcse-after-reload" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=both -Wl,-znow" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j12" 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 /usr/local/overlays/xgl-coffee /usr/local/overlays/kernels_overlay /usr/local/overlays/toolchain_overlay /usr/local/overlays/emission" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X aac acpi aim aimextras alsa applet artworkextra asf audacious audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts buttons cairo cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cdrom chroot cli cpudetection cracklib crypt css cups dbus dga dio directfb dlloader dpms dri dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gimp glibc-omitfp glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk+ gtk2 hal ieee1394 imagemagick innodb input_devices_evdev input_devices_joystick input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_tseng input_devices_v4l ipod ipv6 isdnlog jack jpeg kernel_linux lavc ldap libg++ libsdl linguas_en lm_sensors mad mikmod mjpeg mmx mmxext mono mozilla mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mpg4 mplayer mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg openal opengl oss pam pcre pda pdf pdflib perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection reiser4 reiserfs rhythmbox sdl session spell spl sse ssl svg svga tcpd transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU v4l video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia vlm vorbis win32codecs wma wmv xgl xine xml xorg xorg-x11 xv xvid xvmc zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130737 ***
