[solved] strange issue with nodejs ebuild on armvtel

[gordonb3]

Dear devs,

A lot of docs state that when snapshot is enabled nodejs may fail to compile and in fact it does on my armvtel system. When I disable snapshot the ebuild appears to complete successfully, but the resulting binary returns a segfault. I found that if I run 'make' outside the ebuild environment the build does result in a working binary, but whatever I do to make the ebuild work simply gives me the non functional binary. Every time.

The thing is that I need to get a working solution for the ebuild because nodejs is a build time dependency for a package I'm currently trying to port to Gentoo (see my project page on github) and I need people to be able to install this without the trickery I had to do.

FEATURES="-sandbox -userpriv -usersandbox" does not change it.

[gordonb3]

Issue solved. The problem was with the compile flag 'march=armv5te' set in portage make.conf - set by the maintainer of the original live evaluation system. Very useful for the cross compile environment, but this particular package produces bad code if this is set.