Package has no open bugs, has been in portage for well over 30 days, is stable on x86 and is works fine for me with all combinations of USE flags. here is my emerge info: Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre10 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 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: 1.5.20-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.risq.qc.ca http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 aac acpi alsa audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bmp bzip2 c++ cairo caps cdparanoia cdr crypt css cups curl dbus dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread dvi edl eds emboss encode esd evo exif expat fam fat ffmpeg fftw flac foomaticdb gb gif gimp gimpprint glitz glut gmail gmp gnome gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gzip hal hfs howl i8x0 idea idn imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 jabber java jfs jpeg lcms libcaca libgda libwww linuxkeys live lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mime mmap mng mod mozdevelop mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mythtv native nautilus ncurses network nfs nis no-old-linux no_wxgtk1 noantlr nob nobcel nobeanutils nobsh nocommonslogging nocommonsnet nojsch nolog4j nomotif nonfsv4 noplugin norhino noxalan noxerces nptl nptlonly offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pda pdflib perl plugin png ppds python quicktime readline real reiserfs rtc samba sdl sndfile speex spell ssl stream subversion svg tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis wmf wxwindows xanim xml xml2 xpm xprint xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS
tested and it works fine Thanks for the report Patrick