When building, at a very early stage, the linker complains about a missing entry point (main) in /usr/lib64/crt1.o Obviously, it should not try to search a main function in a library... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge vlc Actual Results: The build fails : here is the last lines of output x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -DSYS_LINUX -I../../include `top_builddir="../.." ../../vlc-config --cflags plugin access_file` -Wsign-compare -Wall -march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -nopie -fno-stack-protector -pipe -c -o libaccess_file_plugin_a-file.o `test -f 'file.c' || echo './'`file.c x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wsign-compare -Wall -march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -nopie -fno-stack-protector -pipe -o libaccess_file_plugin.so libaccess_file_plugin_a-file.o `top_builddir=../.. ../../vlc-config --libs plugin access_file` /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/../../../../lib64/crt1.o: In function `_start': init.c:(.text+0x21): undefined reference to `main' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[4]: *** [libaccess_file_plugin.so] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.2/work/vlc-0.8.2/modules/access' make[3]: *** [all-modules] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.2/work/vlc-0.8.2/modules/access' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.2/work/vlc-0.8.2/modules' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.2/work/vlc-0.8.2' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: media-video/vlc-0.8.2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 250, Exitcode 2 !!! make of VLC failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Expected Results: vlc should be built and installed emerge info output : Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r1, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -nopie -fno-stack-protector" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -nopie -fno-stack-protector" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 16bit 3ds GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE S3TC X X509 Xaw3d a52 aac aalib accessibility accounting acl acpi acpi4linux activefilter adns aim aliaschain alsa amd apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid artworkextra asterisk async athena atlas audiofile authdaemond avantgo avi bash-completion bcmath beepmp berkdb bitmap-fonts blender-game bluetooth bmp bonobo bzip2 bzlib cacheemu cairo calendar cap caps cdb cdda cddb cdf cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cdrom cgi chasen chroot clamav clanJavaScript clanVoice clisp cmucl codecs crypt cscope css ctype cups curl curlwrappers custreloc cyrus dba dbase dbcp dbm dbx debugger dedicated devfs devfs26 devmap dga dhcp dict dillo dio directfb distcache distribution dmx dnd dnsdb dpms dts dumb-allegro dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dxr3 editor edl eds emacs emacs-w3 emoticon encode erandom escreen esd ethereal etwin evms2 evo examples exif exim exiscan exiscan-acl extensions f77 faac faad fam fame fastcgi fax fb fbcon fbdev festival ffmpeg flac flash flatfile flood fluidsynth fmod font-server foomaticdb fortran fpx freetts freetype freewnn frlargefiles frxp fs ftp ftruncate gatos gb gcj gcl gd gdbm geoip ggi gif gimp gimpprint ginac gkrellm glade glep glgd glitz glut gmail gmp gmtfull gmthigh gmtsuppl gmttria gnokii gnomedb gnuplot gnutls gphoto2 gpm gprof gps graphviz gs gsl gsm gsnd gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal hardenedphp hbci hdf high-ints howl httpd hub hyperwave-api icon iconv icq icu ide idea idl ieee1394 image imagekits imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 immqt-bc inetd inifile innkeywords innodb intl ipalias ipv6 ipv6arpa irda irmc j2ee jabber jack java javacomm javadoc javascript jbig jboss jce jikes jit joystick jp2 jpeg jpeg2k jta junit jython kadu-modules kadu-voice kakasi kde kdeenablefinal kerberos kig-scripting koffice-plugin ladcca ladspa largeterminal latex lcd lcms ldap ldirectord leim libcaca libclamav libdsk libedit libgda libsamplerate libwww live lm_sensors lmtp ltsp lua lufsusermount lzo lzw lzw-tiff m17n-lib mad mailbox maildir maildrop maps matroska mbox mbrola mcal mcve md5sum mdb mecab messages mew mhash migemo mikmod mime mimencode ming mips16 mixer mjpeg mls mmap mng mnogosearch mod moneyplex monkey motif mozaccess mozcalendar mozctl mozdevelop mozilla mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mpi mplayer msession msn mule multi-tty multipleip musepack music mysql mysqli mythtv nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-ssh nas native ncurses neXt net netbeans netboot netcdf network neural nis nls nntp no-old-linux nocd nodrm normalizemime nowin nptl nptl-only nptlonly ntlm nvidia nviz oav objc ocaml odbc offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openssh opie oscar oss pam parse-clocks pcap pcntl pcre pda pdf pdfkit pdflib perl pg-hier pg-vacuumdelay php physfs pic pie playlist plotutils png pnp portaudio posix postgres povray ppds prelude print private procmail pthreads pwdb pyste python qdbm qemu-fast qhull qmail qt quicktime quotas quotes radius rdesktop readline real recode remote rhino rogue roundrobin rplay rrdtool rtc ruby samba sasl savedconfig sbcl scanner screen sdk sdl semanticfix serial server servlet-2.3 servlet-2.4 session sftplogging shaper shared sharedmem sheep silc silverxp simplexml skey slang smartcard smime sms smtp sndfile snmp snortsam soap sockets socks5 softmmu softquota sounds soundtouch source sox spamassassin speedo speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 src ssl stats stencil-buffer stream streamzap stroke struts subject-rewrite svg sysvipc szip t1lib tcltk tcpd tcpmd5 tcsim tetex tga theora threads thumbnail tidy tiff timidity tlen tokenizer tools transcode translator transparent-proxy truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1 type1-fonts ucs4 uim uml underscores unicode usb usepackagedmakefiles v4l v4l2 vcd vcdimager vda vhosts videos vidix vim vim-pager vim-with-x virtual virus-scan visualization vnc vorbis wifi wildlsearch winbind withsamplescripts wma123 wmf wxwin wxwindows xanim xatrix xchattext xemacs xface xforms xfs xim xine xinerama xinetd xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xosd xpm xprint xrandr xscreensaver xsl xv xvid xvmc yahoo yaz yp yv12 zeo zlib zvbi userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
Seems like a broken toolchain.
(In reply to comment #1) > Seems like a broken toolchain. But every other ebuild I try to merge (like in system updates with emerge -vDu --newuse world) seems to be working. VLC is the only one which appears to be problematic
Try disabling ccache and removing /var/tmp/portage
I got exactly the same output & problem after disabling ccache and removing every contents in the portage temp directory.
I got something similar. Here is the output from emerge: clude `top_builddir="../.." ../../vlc-config --cflags plugin access_smb` -Wsign -compare -Wall -O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -MT libaccess_smb_plugin_a-smb.o -MD - MP -MF ".deps/libaccess_smb_plugin_a-smb.Tpo" \ -c -o libaccess_smb_plugin_a-smb.o `test -f 'smb.c' || echo './'`smb.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/libaccess_smb_plugin_a-smb.Tpo" ".deps/libaccess_smb_plugin_a- smb.Po"; \ else rm -f ".deps/libaccess_smb_plugin_a-smb.Tpo"; exit 1; \ fi `-mcpu=' is deprecated. Use `-mtune=' or '-march=' instead. smb.c: In function `Close': smb.c:304: error: structure has no member named `close' make[4]: *** [libaccess_smb_plugin_a-smb.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.2-r1/work/vlc-0.8.2/modules /access' make[3]: *** [all-modules] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.2-r1/work/vlc-0.8.2/modules /access' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.2-r1/work/vlc-0.8.2/modules ' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.2-r1/work/vlc-0.8.2' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: media-video/vlc-0.8.2-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 231, Exitcode 2 !!! make of VLC failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Here is emerge info for me: marge ~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS=" -O2 -march=pentium4" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS=" -O2 -march=pentium4" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac acl acpi afs aim alsa aotuv apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid audiofile avi bash-completion bdf berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bootsplash caps cdparanoia cdr cluster codecs crypt css cups curl dbx dga dio directfb dpms dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds encode esd ethereal exif fam fame fb fbcon fbdev flac flatfile foomaticdb fpx freetds ftp gd gdbm gif gpg gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mime mjpeg mmx monkey motif mp3 mpeg msn msql mysql ncurses nls odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline samba sdl snmp spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xine xinerama xml2 xmms xv yahoo zeroconf zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Chuck, your problem is a completely different point. Please open a new bug about that.
Someone who encounter this problem can attach vlc-config script found in the work directory?
Created attachment 70345 [details] vlc-config
The vlc-config file seems sane, so the problem is with the toolchain.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 20600 ***
