While merging a new system I get this error. There has been a forum note on this already but apparently no one has bothered to report it yet. there are around 13 reports of this on the forum. xorg-x11 depends on flex. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start building a new system 2. emerge xorg-x11 Actual Results: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -ansi -pedantic -Wno-return-type -w -I../.. -I../../exports/include -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO -DXENVIRONMENT -c -o pswsemantics.o pswsemantics.c rm -f pswrap i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o pswrap -O2 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -ansi -pedantic -Wno-return-type -w -L../../exports/lib main.o pswparser.o lexer.o pswdict.o pswfile.o systemnames.o psw.o pswstring.o pswsemantics.o -lfl -Wl,-rpath-link,../../exports/lib /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5-20050130/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lfl collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[4]: *** [pswrap] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1/work/xc/config/pswrap' make[3]: *** [../../config/pswrap/pswrap] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1/work/xc/lib/dps' make[2]: *** [includes] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1/work/xc/lib' make[1]: *** [includes] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1/work/xc' make: *** [World] Error 2 Expected Results: >>> Merging x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 to / ... >>> original instance of package unmerged safely. >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] >>> x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 merged. >>> clean: No packages selected for removal. >>> Auto-cleaning packages ... >>> No outdated packages were found on your system.
(In reply to comment #0) > While merging a new system I get this error. There has been a forum note on > this already but apparently no one has bothered to report it yet. there are > around 13 reports of this on the forum. Search harder next time... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87613 ***