While trying to emerge icon 9.4.3-r2 I ran into the following problem : : To configure Icon, run either : : make Configure name=xxxx [for no graphics] : or make X-Configure name=xxxx [with X-Windows graphics] : : where xxxx is one of : aix cygwin hurd linux posix solaris_sunc bsd hpux irix macintosh solaris tru64 : make: *** [config/ppc_macos/status] Error 1 Looks like the ebuild doesn't give the correct platform for OSX My emerge info Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-darwin/macos/10.4, gcc-4.0.0, libsystem-7.1-r0, 8.6.0 Power Macintosh) ================================================================= System uname: 8.6.0 Power Macintosh powerpc macos-20041118 distcc 2.0.1-zeroconf powerpc-apple-darwin7.0 (protocol 1) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: [Not Present] sys-devel/automake: [Not Present] sys-devel/binutils: [Not Present] sys-devel/libtool: [Not Present] virtual/os-headers: 7.1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc-macos" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc-apple-darwin8" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-apple-darwin8" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/local" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc aalib audiofile emboss exif expat ffcall ffmpeg gdbm gif gmp imagemagick jpeg lcms libwww lua mhash mng nls ogg opengl pcre png ppc-macos qt recode sdl slang svg tetex tiff truetype vorbis elibc_Darwin kernel_Darwin userland_Darwin" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
It looks like arizona moved the ppc_macos to just macintosh, therefore the "mytarget" statement in the ebuild should be: if use ppc-macos; then mytarget="macintosh" else ... also you might want to just read the status file in the config/macintosh for any comments
Cheyenne: thanks! Committed the fix in CVS.