When doing an 'emerge dev-libs/aterm' I get the following error: alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -mieee -O2 -mcpu=ev56 -pipe -Wl,-O1 -o .libs/atrmannos atrmannos.o -L/var/tmp/portage/aterm-2.4.2/work/aterm-2.4.2/aterm /var/tmp/portage/aterm-2.4.2/work/aterm-2.4.2/aterm/.libs/libATerm.so creating atrmannos make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/aterm-2.4.2/work/aterm-2.4.2/utils' Making all in test make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/aterm-2.4.2/work/aterm-2.4.2/test' ../utils/dicttoc -file-prefix terms -dict terms.dict make[1]: *** No rule to make target `terms.h', needed by `all'. Stop. make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[1]: *** [terms.c] Segmentation fault make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/aterm-2.4.2/work/aterm-2.4.2/test' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/alpha/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.15-rc5 alpha) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-rc5 alpha EV56 Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] 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: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="alpha" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mieee -O2 -mcpu=ev56 -pipe" CHOST="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mieee -O2 -mcpu=ev56 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks nostrip sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/gentoo/ http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/gentoo/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.ca.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="alpha X aac aalib aim alsa arts audiofile berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 crypt cups curl eds encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg flac font-server foomaticdb gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 icq imlib ipv6 jabber jpeg kde lcms libg++ libwww lua mad mhash mikmod mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msn nas ncurses nls nocd nptl nptlonly offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oscar oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl shorten sndfile spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml2 xmms xv xvid yahoo zlib linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL
ferdy p.masked dev-libs/aterm and dropped the ~alpha keyword for aterm-2.4.2 back on 21 Mar 2006 due to this bug and Bug #110660. I've looked at the code and the changes needed to port this to alpha are non-trivial and best left to upstream. There is an upstream bug report requesting fixes for alpha: http://bugzilla.sen.cwi.nl:8080/show_bug.cgi?id=497
