The build stop its process at: checking that the C compiler understands -errwarn... top says: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 26890 portage 20 0 2336 432 296 R 99 0.0 0:25.93 conftest and the config.log: configure:7571: checking that the C compiler understands -errwarn configure:7598: alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -o conftest -mieee -pipe -O2 -mcpu=ev4 -errwarn=%all -Diniparser_getstr\(d,i\)=iniparser_getstring\(d,i,NULL\) -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu conftest.c >&5 <command-line>:0:17: warning: missing whitespace after the macro name [enabled by default] /usr/lib/gcc/alpha-unknown-linux-gnu/4.6.3/../../../../alpha-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol rrwarn=%all; defaulting to 0000000120000430 configure:7598: $? = 0 configure:7598: ./conftest This happens on various arches.
For the record, the problem was the errwarn test doesn't work with O2 , because it creates a binary that hangs . It goes fine using O1. Thanks to ago for his time.
