in the default /etc/make.conf included in stage1-ppc-1.4_rc1.tbz2 (and possibly others): CFLAGS="-03 -pipe -fsigned-char" that really should be -O3 (ie, 'oh three' not 'zero three').
Yes, htis was fixed a long while ago, where did you find this still?
this was in stage1-ppc-1.4_rc1.tbz2 which i downloaded from ibiblio early morning fri dec 6 eastern time. md5sum checked out fine: 5c11922a2bfdd8c4128d062ff4f39fca stage1-ppc-1.4_rc1.tbz2
Yes you are right :( These stages should be replaced by newere stages almost any day now, just doing testing on the latest ones.. once they are up I will pull these older stages down. Thanks for catching that, thought I flushed out all of them already
This should be fixed in next portage release (was still an error in the make.conf.ppc file for portage which I've fixed now)
This is fixed now and should be reflected in all make.conf since portage 2.0.46