As stated, keywording gaim-slashexec ~amd64 and emerging works perfectly with no strange errors or crashing.
okay to get ~amd64 delta ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 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-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -msse3 -g" CHOST="x86_64-pc-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/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -msse3 -g" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks multilib-strict sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" 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 alsa audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dbus divx4linux dvd dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal icq idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jabber java jpeg lcms live lua lzw lzw-tiff mad mjpeg mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msn mysql native ncurses network nls no-old-linux noantlr nobcel nobeanutils nobsh nptl nptlonly offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime radeon readline real rtc sdk sdl spell sqlite ssl svg tcltk tcpd theora tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vorbis wmf xine xml xml2 xpm xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
keyword added Thanks for testing both!