[gentoo-user] Building media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1 failed

[Gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com>]

After today's # emerge-webrsyc
# emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=90 --ask world
failed with the following message:

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U  ] media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1 [2.5] USE="threads%*" ABI_X86="(64%*) (-32) (-x32)" 
[ebuild     U  ] net-misc/wget-1.16 [1.14]
[ebuild     U  ] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.8.9.9 [6.8.8.10-r1]

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y
...
>>> Verifying ebuild manifests  

>>> Emerging (1 of 3) media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1  
 * Fetching files in the background. To view fetch progress, run
 * `tail -f /var/log/emerge-fetch.log` in another terminal.
 * lcms2-2.6.tar.gz SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ...                                                                                                       [ ok ]
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking lcms2-2.6.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1/work
>>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1/work
>>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1/work/lcms2-2.6 ...  
 * Applying lcms-2.6-cve-2014-0459.patch ...                                                                                                                   [ ok ]
 * Running elibtoolize in: lcms2-2.6/
 *   Applying portage/1.2.0 patch ...
 *   Applying sed/1.5.6 patch ...
 *   Applying as-needed/2.2.6 patch ...
 *   Applying target-nm/2.4.2 patch ...
>>> Source prepared.
>>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1/work/lcms2-2.6 ...  
 * abi_x86_64.amd64: running multilib-minimal_abi_src_configure
>>> Working in BUILD_DIR: "/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1/work/lcms2-2.6-abi_x86_64.amd64"  
 * econf: updating lcms2-2.6/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess
 * econf: updating lcms2-2.6/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub
/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1/work/lcms2-2.6/configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/usr/lib64 --disable-dependency-tracking --docdir=/usr/share/doc/lcms-2.6-r1 --enable-shared --disable-static --with-jpeg --with-tiff --with-zlib --with-threads
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1/work/lcms2-2.6-abi_x86_64.amd64':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

!!! Please attach the following file when seeking support:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1/work/lcms2-2.6-abi_x86_64.amd64/config.log
 * ERROR: media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1::gentoo failed (configure phase):
 *   econf failed
 * 
 * Call stack:
 *          ebuild.sh, line   93:  Called src_configure
 *        environment, line 3458:  Called autotools-multilib_src_configure
 *        environment, line  581:  Called multilib-minimal_src_configure
 *        environment, line 2677:  Called multilib_parallel_foreach_abi 'multilib-minimal_abi_src_configure'
 *        environment, line 2983:  Called multibuild_parallel_foreach_variant '_multilib_multibuild_wrapper' 'multilib-minimal_abi_src_configure'
 *        environment, line 2570:  Called multibuild_foreach_variant '_multibuild_parallel' '_multilib_multibuild_wrapper' 'multilib-minimal_abi_src_configure'
 *        environment, line 2513:  Called _multibuild_run '_multibuild_parallel' '_multilib_multibuild_wrapper' 'multilib-minimal_abi_src_configure'
 *        environment, line 2511:  Called _multibuild_parallel '_multilib_multibuild_wrapper' 'multilib-minimal_abi_src_configure'
 *        environment, line 2561:  Called _multilib_multibuild_wrapper 'multilib-minimal_abi_src_configure'
 *        environment, line  546:  Called multilib-minimal_abi_src_configure
 *        environment, line 2671:  Called multilib_src_configure
 *        environment, line 3104:  Called autotools-utils_src_configure
 *        environment, line  622:  Called econf '--docdir=/usr/share/doc/lcms-2.6-r1' '--enable-shared' '--disable-static' '--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff' '--with-zlib' '--with-threads'
 *   phase-helpers.sh, line  584:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *   			die "econf failed"
 * 
 * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1::gentoo'`,
 * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1::gentoo'`.
/usr/lib64/portage/bin/isolated-functions.sh: line 195: wait: `econf failed': not a pid or valid job spec
 * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1/temp/environment'.
 * Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1/work/lcms2-2.6-abi_x86_64.amd64'
 * S: '/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1/work/lcms2-2.6'

>>> Failed to emerge media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1, Log file:  

>>>  '/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1/temp/build.log'  

 * Messages for package media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1:

 * ERROR: media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1::gentoo failed (configure phase):
 *   econf failed
 * 
 * Call stack:
 *          ebuild.sh, line   93:  Called src_configure
 *        environment, line 3458:  Called autotools-multilib_src_configure
 *        environment, line  581:  Called multilib-minimal_src_configure
 *        environment, line 2677:  Called multilib_parallel_foreach_abi 'multilib-minimal_abi_src_configure'
 *        environment, line 2983:  Called multibuild_parallel_foreach_variant '_multilib_multibuild_wrapper' 'multilib-minimal_abi_src_configure'
 *        environment, line 2570:  Called multibuild_foreach_variant '_multibuild_parallel' '_multilib_multibuild_wrapper' 'multilib-minimal_abi_src_configure'
 *        environment, line 2513:  Called _multibuild_run '_multibuild_parallel' '_multilib_multibuild_wrapper' 'multilib-minimal_abi_src_configure'
 *        environment, line 2511:  Called _multibuild_parallel '_multilib_multibuild_wrapper' 'multilib-minimal_abi_src_configure'
 *        environment, line 2561:  Called _multilib_multibuild_wrapper 'multilib-minimal_abi_src_configure'
 *        environment, line  546:  Called multilib-minimal_abi_src_configure
 *        environment, line 2671:  Called multilib_src_configure
 *        environment, line 3104:  Called autotools-utils_src_configure
 *        environment, line  622:  Called econf '--docdir=/usr/share/doc/lcms-2.6-r1' '--enable-shared' '--disable-static' '--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff' '--with-zlib' '--with-threads'
 *   phase-helpers.sh, line  584:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *   			die "econf failed"
 * 
 * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1::gentoo'`,
 * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1::gentoo'`.
 * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1/temp/environment'.
 * Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1/work/lcms2-2.6-abi_x86_64.amd64'
 * S: '/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/lcms-2.6-r1/work/lcms2-2.6'

I think that something may be wrong with sys-devel/gcc-4.8.3 as my problems begun when
I have updated it from sys-devel/gcc-4.7.3-r1 this Monday. Namely, just after this only
update, # emerge @preserved-rebuild
failed to rebuild app-text/pdftk-1.44 that was not updated that time and built well with
sys-devel/gcc-4.7.3-r1. Then I recalled that to build app-text/pdftk I had to add gcj use
flag to sys-devel/gcc. So, as I am not fond of Java, I just unmerged app-text/pdftk.
Bu now it seems that I had to unmerge media-libs/lcms and all packages that depend on it.

May be it would be easier to unmerge sys-devel/gcc-4.8.3 and return back to
sys-devel/gcc-4.7.3-r1 but I do not know how to do it properly.