[gentoo-dev] portage build dies with core dump on ld

[Henti Smith]

howdy .. just did updating on all my systems .. 

my one system is doing some wierd stuff ... here it the result of running "emerge -u portage" 

eldar root # emerge portage        
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge sys-apps/portage-2.0.37 to /
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Source unpacked.
./create-localdecls
Checking truncate argument type... off_t
Checking libc version... libc.so.6
Checking glibc subversion... 
gcc -march=i386 -O1 -pipe -Wall -c -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPIC -fPIC -D_REENTRANT libsandbox.c
gcc -march=i386 -O1 -pipe -Wall -c -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPIC -fPIC -D_REENTRANT sandbox_futils.c
gcc -march=i386 -O1 -pipe -Wall -c -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPIC -fPIC -D_REENTRANT canonicalize.c
ld libsandbox.o sandbox_futils.o canonicalize.o -shared -fPIC -ldl -lc -o libsandbox.so
gcc -march=i386 -O1 -pipe -Wall -c sandbox.c
gcc sandbox.o sandbox_futils.o -ldl -lc -o sandbox

>>> Install portage-2.0.37 into /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.37/image/ category sys-apps
running install
running build
running build_ext
building 'missingos' extension
creating build
creating build/temp.linux-i686-2.2
gcc -DNDEBUG -march=i686 -O3 -pipe -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.2 -c missingos.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.2/missingos.o -O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.2
gcc -shared build/temp.linux-i686-2.2/missingos.o -o build/lib.linux-i686-2.2/missingos.so
collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed], core dumped
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully.
!!! Function src_install, Line -283, Exitcode 1
!!! (no error message)

any ideas ? 

Henti Smith