can't compile xfree-4.2.0-r12 (clean install):segment violat

[drini]

this is the 3rd time I try to compile X
I'm doing a fresh install. Since i'm on dialup, I?m doing the installation from stage 3 with debian as a host. Following the advice on the tips forum, I mounted, chrooted, etc.
Then emerge rsync to actualize the database

afterwards emerge -f x11-base/xfree
which downloads X420src-1.tgz, X420src-2.tgz, X420src-3.tgz
corresponding to
xfree-4.2.0-r12
next morning I do emerge x11-base/xfree to build the source downloaded last night
and after almost an hour, it crash and burns with segment violation. I tried 3 times, and always at the same place.
I even deleted the source, redid emrge rsync, redownloaded the packages, and after another night of dload, I run emerge t ocompile X nad the same error.

Here are the last lines I get. Am I missing a dependency or something? since emerge --pretend tells me I shouldn't need any.

make[5]: Cambiando a directorio `/var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r12/work/xc/lib/freetype2/freetype/internal'
make[5]: No se hace nada para `depend'.
make[5]: Saliendo directorio `/var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r12/work/xc/lib/freetype2/freetype/internal'
make[4]: Saliendo directorio `/var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r12/work/xc/lib/freetype2/freetype'
make[3]: Saliendo directorio `/var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r12/work/xc/lib/freetype2'
depending in lib/Xft...
make[3]: Cambiando a directorio `/var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r12/work/xc/lib/Xft'
flex -l xftlex.l
sed 's/yy/XftConfig/g' lex.yy.c | sed 's/__REALLY_YY__/yy/' > xftlex.c && rm -f lex.yy.c
bison -y -d xftgram.y
xftgram.y:168: warning: previous rule lacks an ending `;'
make[3]: *** [xftgram.c] Violación de segmento
make[3]: Saliendo directorio `/var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r12/work/xc/lib/Xft'
make[2]: *** [depend] Error 2
make[2]: Saliendo directorio `/var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r12/work/xc/lib'
make[1]: *** [depend] Error 2
make[1]: Saliendo directorio `/var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r12/work/xc'
make: *** [World] Error 2

!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 13, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

!!! emerge aborting on /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/xfree-4.2.0-r12.ebuild .
morfismo / #

The four times I tried, one after refetching the packages, the crash is always at the same point. Perhaps there's something wrong on -r12. Can anyone enlighten me on this?

[drini]

the last lines mention freetype, I had emerged freetype-2.1.2
also, but this didn't solved it
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[mikulus]

I had a same problem and it turned out to be bad memory module. I could compile smaller packages, but not anything big like X. emerge memtest and test your memory. For more info on this look at the last post in this thread https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=10401&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=25
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[rac]

Also see this thread for another approach to RAM testing.
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