https://bugs.gentoo.org/303120 make sure the linux version constructor runs before the libproc constructor since the latter uses variables setup by the former fix by Chris Coleman Index: proc/version.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/procps/procps/proc/version.c,v retrieving revision 1.7 diff -u -p -r1.7 version.c --- proc/version.c 9 Feb 2003 07:27:16 -0000 1.7 +++ proc/version.c 14 Nov 2010 00:22:44 -0000 @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ void display_version(void) { int linux_version_code; -static void init_Linux_version(void) __attribute__((constructor)); +static void init_Linux_version(void) __attribute__((constructor(100))); static void init_Linux_version(void) { static struct utsname uts; int x = 0, y = 0, z = 0; /* cleared in case sscanf() < 3 */