I got several "QA: Static ELF: ./conftest: ./conftest" messages (12, to be exact) during the merge of sys-devel/gcc-4.3.3-r1. emerge --info: Portage 2.2_rc27 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.29 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.29-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T8300_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.0 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p10-r1 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.6.1-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 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/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y --keep-going --jobs=3" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch usersync" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="he_IL.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu" LINGUAS="en he" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/mozilla /usr/local/portage/layman/java-overlay" SYNC="rsync://dagobah/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi aiglx aim alsa amd64 amr amrnb amrwb bash-completion berkdb bidi bugzilla bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cscope cups curl dbus dell dga divx dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread enca encode exif ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gd gdbm gif git glib glitz gpg gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv icq icu idn ieee1394 ipv6 isdnlog jabber java java5 java6 jpeg jpeg2k juju kde lame latex lyx mad matroska midi mmx mng mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4 mplayer msn mudflap multilib mysql ncurses network networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntp ogg opengl openmp oscar pam pch pcre pdf plasma png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sasl sdl session smp speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 srt sse sse2 ssl ssse3 subversion svg symlink sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb v4l2 vdpau vim-syntax vorbis webdav webkit wifi x264 xcb xcomposite xine xinerama xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en he" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa nv nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS It's done so the build.log is gone, unfortunately, but if needed could produce it.
i dont see anything needs fixing. current sandbox versions cannot protect against static binaries.
I asked in irc and was told to report this, sorry for the spam. Would be helpful to know which QA notices should be reported and which shouldn't.