I've seen that several bug reports concerning glibc failures have been filed already, but none of them seems to be quite the same as this one, so I've opened a new entry. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge glibc Actual Results: [...] 686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -nostdlib -nostartfiles -o /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/math/test-ifloat -Wl,-dynamic-linker=/lib/ld-linux.so.2 -Wl,-z,combreloc -Wl,-z,relro /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/csu/crt1.o /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/csu/crti.o `i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc --print-file-name=crtbegin.o` /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/math/test-ifloat.o /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/math/libm.so.6 -Wl,-rpath-link=/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/math:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/elf:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/dlfcn:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/nss:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/nis:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/rt:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/resolv:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/crypt:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/linuxthreads /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/libc.so.6 /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/libc_nonshared.a -lgcc -lgcc_eh `i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc --print-file-name=crtend.o` /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/csu/crtn.o GCONV_PATH=/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/iconvdata LC_ALL=C /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/elf/ld-linux.so.2 --library-path /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/math:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/elf:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/dlfcn:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/nss:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/nis:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/rt:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/resolv:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/crypt:/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/linuxthreads /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/math/test-ifloat > /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/math/test-ifloat.out make[2]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/build-default-i686-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/math/test-ifloat.out] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/glibc-2.3.5/math' make[1]: *** [math/tests] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5/work/glibc-2.3.5' make: *** [check] Error 2 Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 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: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /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/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks maketest notitles sandbox sfperms strict test userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X adns apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 caps cdparanoia cdr crypt css cups curl divx4linux dlloader doc dvd dvdread emacs emboss encode erandom expat foomaticdb gd gdbm gif glade glut graphviz gtk gtk2 hardened imagemagick imlib ipv6 ithreads java javascript jce jpeg latex libg++ libwww mad mbox mikmod milter mmx mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer ncurses normalizemime nptl nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime rar readline real rtc spell sse ssl subtitles tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts userlocales vorbis win32codecs xml xml2 xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Marking duplicate - I don't think the linuxthreads/nptl difference is relevant. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87249 ***