Bugzilla Bug 189080

I had to use "USE=-python" to get postgresql to build on Gentoo/FreeBSD ...

Reproducible: Always

Care to attach your `emerge --info` and the error you got?

Portage 2.1.3.5 (default-bsd/fbsd/6.2/x86, gcc-4.1.2, freebsd-lib-6.2-r1,
6.2-RELEASE i386)
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System uname: 6.2-RELEASE i386 i386
Gentoo Base System release 2.0.0_alpha1
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:30:01 +0000
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.23b
virtual/os-headers:  6.2-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86-fbsd ~x86-fbsd"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-gentoo-freebsd6.2"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-gentoo-freebsd6.2"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer sfperms strict
unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="berkdb cli cracklib crypt cups dri gdbm iconv java5 midi ncurses nls oss
pam pcre perl ppds python readline reflection session spl ssl tcpd unicode
x86-fbsd xorg zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop
empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi
null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="FreeBSD" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard
mouse" KERNEL="FreeBSD" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216
lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="BSD" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus
cyrix dummy i128 i810 mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge
savage siliconmotion sis tga trident tseng vga via vmware"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Created an attachment (id=128311) [edit]
error message from build of postgress WITHOUT "USE=-python"

Our python works very nicely with threaded on FreeBSD - so I've removed the
check from the ebuild.