I tried to update gnucash that tried to update gconf from 1.0.8-r5 to 1.0.9 at the very start it tries to orbit-idl GConf.idl and the outcome is cannot compile empty file. I tried it by hand in /var/tmp/portage/... still no luck even an strace on the orbit-idl didn't help. orbit installed is 0.5.17 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.50-r10 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.2.5-r2,2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.4.26) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib apm arts avi berkdb bonobo crypt cups emacs encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hbci imap imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mbox mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
*** Bug 61696 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
solved right ? weird problem btw, I don't know why it would want to try use the old gcc, but as long as no other reports turn up, I'm going to close this one.