I just emerged psyco and got: # equery files psyco [ Searching for packages matching psyco... ] * Contents of dev-python/psyco-1.5: /tmp /tmp/portage /tmp/portage/homedir /tmp/portage/homedir/lib /tmp/portage/homedir/lib/python2.4 /tmp/portage/homedir/lib/python2.4/psyco /tmp/portage/homedir/lib/python2.4/psyco/__init__.py /tmp/portage/homedir/lib/python2.4/psyco/_psyco.so /tmp/portage/homedir/lib/python2.4/psyco/classes.py /tmp/portage/homedir/lib/python2.4/psyco/core.py /tmp/portage/homedir/lib/python2.4/psyco/kdictproxy.py /tmp/portage/homedir/lib/python2.4/psyco/logger.py /tmp/portage/homedir/lib/python2.4/psyco/profiler.py /tmp/portage/homedir/lib/python2.4/psyco/support.py /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/psyco-1.5 /usr/share/doc/psyco-1.5/MANIFEST.gz /usr/share/doc/psyco-1.5/README.txt.gz
Doesn't happen here, and I don't see any obvious setup.py bug right away. Can you attach a build log?
Sorry, I had installed the easy_install eggs stuff and apparently it conflicts with building this package.