On Tuesday 23 August 2011 20:47:42 Frank Peters wrote: > When attempting to emerge either thunderbird-5 or thunderbird-6 > the build fails. > > The build log, in both cases, shows this at the end: > > rm -f libxul.so > /usr/bin/python2.7 [...] -Wl,-h,libxul.so -o libxul.so [...] > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make[4]: *** [libxul.so] Error 1 > > Is it strange that libxul should be removed and then used immediately > afterward? > > Currently I am using thunderbird-3.1.10 which builds using the > same USE flags and other options. You need more than 3GB of diskspace free. So If you compile on a limited tmpfs space, you can compile it with: PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/another_path_that_is_on_disk" emerge thunderbird -- Agostino Sarubbo ( ago ) Mail: ago@autistici.org Irc: irc.freenode.net ago Gpg: 0x7CD2DC5D Arch Tester for Gentoo Linux amd64 http://is.gd/hcQem Admin for HacklabCS c/o HPCC at Unical This mail has been sent with kmail on gentoo.