Having added ppc64 flag to mail-mta/exim/exim-4.52 it emerges correctly. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add ppc64 flag to ebuild 2. emerge exim 3. Actual Results: Success. Expected Results: emerge fails. Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/ppc/2005.1/ppc64/64bit-userland/970/pmac, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 ppc64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 ppc64 PPC970FX, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.1-r1 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-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /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/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.channelx.biz/ http://fido.online.kz/gentoo http://gentoo.ITDNet.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc64 X alsa altivec berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cjk curl dga dmx dvd emacs encode exiscan-acl fam gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 ipv6 jpeg libwww live mbox mule ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam perl png python readline real server spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis xinerama xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
libspf2-1.2.5-r1.ebuild: libsrs_alt-1.0_rc1-r1.ebuild pulled in as well All set to ~ppc64 Thanks much!
stable. closing