Here is an explanation on why it should be dropped - http://bugs.gentoo.org/226977 And besides deprecation issue it failed to compile until i removed bindnow-flag from ebuild and BINDNOW_FLAGS usage from ldflags patch in files directory. mail-client/mailx-support-20060102-r1 If failed with: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=nocona -O2 -pipe -c -o open_with_exlock.o open_with_exlock.c x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wl,-O1 * QA: stop using the bindnow-flags function ... simply drop it from your ebuild -march=nocona -O2 -pipe -o lockspool lockspool.o locking.o open_with_exlock.o x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: No such file or directory /bin/sh: 01m*: command not found make: *** [lockspool] Error 127 If you want I post the modified ebuild & ldflags patch which compiles ok.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 226963 ***