I don't have the f77-flag set and tried to emerge blas: ------------------snip---------------- spruengli root # emerge -v blas Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) app-sci/blas-19980702 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) blas.tgz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking blas.tgz to /tmp/portage/blas-19980702/work >>> Source unpacked. g77 -march=pentium4 -Os -pipe -msse2 -msse -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o caxpy.o caxpy.f make: g77: Command not found make: *** [caxpy.o] Error 127 >>> Install blas-19980702 into /tmp/portage/blas-19980702/image/ category app-sci /usr/lib/portage/bin/dolib.a: libblas.a does not exist man: prepallstrip: strip: >>> Completed installing into /tmp/portage/blas-19980702/image/ >>> Merging app-sci/blas-19980702 to / sfperms --- /usr/ --- /usr/lib/ * Caching service dependencies... * Service 'exim' already provide 'mta'!; * Not adding service 'postfix'... >>> app-sci/blas-19980702 merged. -------------------snip-------------------- Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a gcc without f77 2. emerge blas 3. look at funny output Actual Results: blas is "installed" Expected Results: The ebuild script should have returned with an error.
Fixed in new blas packages. apps-ci/blas has been deprecated for some time as well. George *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30453 ***