The final linking step uses the wrong version number to find libstdc++ I saw this with imagemagick-6.1.8.8 and gtk+-2.4.14 details from emerge -u imagemagick [ ... ] /bin/sh ./libtool --silent --tag=CC --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=athlon -O3 -pipe -Wall -pthread -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lfreetype -lz -L/usr/lib -o magick/libMagick.la -rpath /usr/lib -no-undefined -version-info 7:8:1 [[ stuff deleted - all the imagemagick .lo ]] -lXt -lbz2 -lz -lpthread -lm -lpthread ltdl/libltdl.la grep: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la' is not a valid libtool archive make[1]: *** [magick/libMagick.la] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/imagemagick-6.1.8.8/work/ImageMagick-6.1.8' make: *** [all] Error 2 well this cannot work # gcc-config -L /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5 # ls /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/ 3.3.5/ From where gets libtool the idea to use 3.3.4 ? # gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/specs Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.5-r1/work/gcc-3.3.5/configure --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3.5 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/include/g++-v3 --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --disable-altivec --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --with-system-zlib --disable-checking --disable-werror --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-libgcj --enable-languages=c,c++,f77 Thread model: posix gcc version 3.3.5 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5-r1, ssp-3.3.2-3, pie-8.7.7.1) if i look into # vi /var/tmp/portage/imagemagick-6.1.8.8/work/ImageMagick-6.1.8/libtool i see # Compile-time system search path for libraries sys_lib_search_path_spec=" /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/ /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/ /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/ /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/ /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/ /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/../../../ /lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/ /lib/ /usr/lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/ /usr/lib/" no 3.3.4 i'm clueless Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Just emerge an ebuild which uses g++ Actual Results: Well - as described - compilation failure Expected Results: emerge the packages Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10 i686 AMD Duron(TM) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19-r1,sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt crypto cups encode esd f77 fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73435 ***
