Tested on ppc, works for me. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge media-sound/ncmpc-0.11.1-r1 2. start mpd 3. use ncmpc to contol mpd Actual Results: success! Expected Results: ditto emerge info: Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (selinux/2005.1/ppc, gcc-3.4.4-vanilla, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-hardened ppc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-hardened ppc 7447A, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 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="ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/tmp/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox selinux sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/" LC_ALL="en_GB.utf8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa altivec berkdb cdr crypt cups curl directfb dlloader dvd dvdread esd fam flac gd gdbm gif gpm gtk hardened imagemagick imlib java jpeg ldap mad motif mpeg ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam perl png ppc python readline real selinux slang sqlite ssl tcpd theora tiff truetype udev unicode vorbis xine xml2 xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
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