Gets to linking stage then fails with this error: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: gtkmedia.o: undefined reference to symbol 'XSetErrorHandler' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: note: 'XSetErrorHandler' is defined in DSO /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6 so try adding it to the linker command line /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6: could not read symbols: Invalid operation Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge net-im/pidgin Actual Results: Fails to compile Expected Results: Should compile Portage 2.1.11.59 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.17, 3.7.10-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.7.10-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_FX-tm-8150_Eight-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.1 KiB Mem: 16390732 total, 3930436 free KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free Timestamp of tree: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 02:00:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r3, 3.2.3-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.10.2-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.11.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.2 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.7 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.17 Repositories: gentoo sabayon x-tatsh-overlay x-poluza-overlay ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer -ggdb" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-3.0/conf /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa /usr/share/polkit-1/actions /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg candy clean-logs compressdebug config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ rsync://mirrors.rit.edu/gentoo/ http://mirrors.rit.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.llarian.net/ rsync://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/" LANG="en_GB.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/sabayon /var/lib/layman/tatsh-overlay /usr/local/portage-overlays/poluza-overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cjk cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus declarative dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gpm iconv jemalloc jpeg kde kipi lcms libnotify mad mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf phonon plasma png policykit ppds qt qt3support qt4 readline sdl semantic-desktop session spell sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg tcpd tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vim-syntax vorbis wxwidgets x264 xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd 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 cgi cgid 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard evdev joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="pdfimport presenter-console presenter-minimizer wiki-publisher scripting-javascript" LINGUAS="en_GB en" NGINX_MODULES_HTTP="access auth_basic autoindex browser charset empty_gif fastcgi geo gzip headers limit_req limit_zone memcached proxy referer rewrite scgi split_clients ssi upstream_ip_hash userid uwsgi flv gzip_static image_filter stub_status headers_more sub dav map perl mp4 fancyindex upload upload_progress push_stream" NGINX_MODULES_MAIL="smtp imap" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-4 php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
Created attachment 343878 [details] build log
> /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6: could not read symbols: Invalid operation Is something wrong with your libX11 maybe? What is the output of "equery check libX11"?
# equery check libX11 * Checking x11-libs/libX11-1.5.0 ... 1108 out of 1108 files passed Rebooted to see if that would change anything. Did not.
I downgraded from binutils-2.23 to binutils-2.22 and Pidgin compiled fine.
Pidgin 2.10.7-r5 failed with same error on ~x86 http://bpaste.net/show/122940/ . Solved by downgrading binutils from 2.23.2 to 2.23.1.
A Google search for the error I got ( "/usr/lib64/libX11.so.6: could not read symbols: Invalid operation" ) while building cairo on amd64 led me to this thread. Downgrading binutils to 2.23.1 helped, upgrading binutils back to 2.23.2 caused x11-libs/cairo-1.12.14-r4 to fail again: libtool: link: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -pipe -march=native -Wl,-O1 -o .libs/cairo-perf-trace cairo-perf-trace.o cairo-error.o cairo-hash.o -Wl,--as-needed ../util/cairo-script/.libs/libcairo-script-interpreter.so -llzo2 ../util/cairo-missing/.libs/libcairo-missing.a ./.libs/libcairoperf.a ../boilerplate/.libs/libcairoboilerplate.a /var/tmp/portage/x11-libs/cairo-1.12.14-r4/work/cairo-1.12.14/src/.libs/libcairo.so ../src/.libs/libcairo.so -lpthread -lpixman-1 -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lEGL -ldl -lpng15 -lz -lGL -lrt -lm /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: ../boilerplate/.libs/libcairoboilerplate.a(cairo-boilerplate-glx.o): undefined reference to symbol 'XCreateColormap' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: note: 'XCreateColormap' is defined in DSO /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6 so try adding it to the linker command line /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6: could not read symbols: Invalid operation collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
*** Bug 497796 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Figured it out. Compiling without xscreensaver useflag causes build to fail. Confirmed on two different ~amd64 systems.
