I added ~sparc to the keywords for websvn-1.61, and it worked fine. It's portable, since it's just PHP scripts. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. add ~sparc to websvn 2. emerge websvn 3. use websvn Actual Results: websvn works Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2005.1, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2, 2.4.31-sparc sparc64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.31-sparc sparc64 sun4u Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.23 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O -mcpu=ultrasparc" CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O -mcpu=ultrasparc" DISTDIR="/var/remote/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/remote/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="sparc apache2 arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups dlloader eds emacs encode esd fbcon foomaticdb fortran gcc64 gdbm gif gstreamer gtk2 imlib jpeg libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls nosendmail offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php png python qt readline samba sdl spell ssl tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts ultra1 vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
~sparc'ed, thanks for the report.