[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1

[Jim Cunning]

On Friday 07 May 2010 17:04:22 William Kenworthy wrote:
>
> > For the last week or perhaps more, I have been unable to complete an
> > emerge update of world because x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 fails.  I now
> > have just the following ebuilds that cannot finish because of qt-webkit:
> >
[...]
> >
> > Near the end of the emerge, the following error occurs:
> >
> > compiling .rcc/release-shared/qrc_WebKit.cpp
> > rm -f libQtWebKit.so.4.6.2 libQtWebKit.so libQtWebKit.so.4
> > libQtWebKit.so.4.6 linking ../../../../lib/libQtWebKit.so.4.6.2
> > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-
> > gnu/bin/ld:obj/release/HTMLParser.o: file format not recognized; treating
> > as linker script
> > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-
> > gnu/bin/ld:obj/release/HTMLParser.o:1: syntax error
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make: *** [../../../../lib/libQtWebKit.so.4.6.2] Error 1
> >
> >  * ERROR: x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 failed:
> >  *    emake failed
> >
> > There was a thread on gentoo forums with this very error listed as solved
> > (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6262495), but the ccache
> > solution suggested there has no effect on my experience of the problem.
> > Anyone have a suggestion on how to proceed?
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> FEATURES='-distcc -ccache' MAKEOPTS='-j1' emerge ...
>
> Worked for me on multiple systems
>
> BillK

Thanks for the tip. It seems to have done the trick, because emerge is running 
far longer beyond the point it originally failed with the error above.
-- 
Jim