Without a call to epunt_cxx net-libs/gnutls-3.2.8 (at least) fails to build with USE="-cxx" when a C++ compiler is not installed. checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp configure: error: in `/var/tmp/portage/net-libs/gnutls-3.2.8/work/gnutls-3.2.8': configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check See `config.log' for more details Portage 2.2.8 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/developer, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.18, 3.12.6-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.12.6-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-3920XM_CPU_@_2.90GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 32596236 total, 5326692 free KiB Swap: 1048572 total, 1048356 free Timestamp of tree: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:00:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.24 ccache version 3.1.9 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45-r1 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/python: 2.6.9, 2.7.6, 3.2.5-r3, 3.3.3 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.9-r3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.12.1-r2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.14.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.1.2, 4.2.4-r1, 4.5.4, 4.6.4, 4.7.3-r1, 4.7.4_pre9999::toolchain, 4.8.2_pre9999::toolchain, 4.8.2, 4.9.0_pre9999::toolchain sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 4.0-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.12 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.18 Repositories: gentoo kde crossdev local gcc-porting toolchain dirtyepic ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -g -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -g -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y --quiet-build=n" FCFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -g -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache cgroup clean-logs compressdebug distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync multilib-strict news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms sign split-log splitdebug strict test test-fail-continue unknown-features-warn unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -g -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j12 V=1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/kde /home/dirtyepic/crossdev /home/dirtyepic/overlay /home/dirtyepic/svn/gcc-porting /home/dirtyepic/svn/toolchain /home/dirtyepic/svn/dirtyepic"
Fixed in 3.2.10.