In my system hercules-3.01 emerge and install. OK
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Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.3-gentoo-r1)
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System uname: 2.6.3-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13
distcc 2.12.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/tomcat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/lib/jboss /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/afs/C /etc/afs/afsws /etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.netnitco.net http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo http://ftp.caliu.info/pub/gentoo/ http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm arts autofs avi berkdb bonobo cdr clamav crypt cups doc dv dvd dvdr encode esd faad fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gnomedb gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imap imlib jabber java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mpeg4 mysql nas ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline ruby samba scanner sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex transcode truetype x86 xine xml2 xmms xv zlib"
