media-sound/audacity-1.2.3 emerges and runs fine on ppc64. Please mark ~ppc64. Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/ppc/2005.1/ppc64/64bit-userland/970/pmac, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r2, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 ppc64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 ppc64 PPC970FX, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 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: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mtune=970 -mcpu=970 -mabi=altivec" CHOST="powerpc64-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/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.gg3.net/" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://gg3.net/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc64 X alsa altivec audiofile berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cjk crypt curl dga dmx dts dvd emacs encode ethereal exif exiscan-acl expat fam gdbm gif glut gnome gpm gtk gtk2 idn imagemagick ipv6 jpeg lcms libwww live mad mbox mng motif mule ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre perl png python readline real sdl server spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis xinerama xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
media-sound/audacity-1.2.3 is already stable on ppc64 ;-) later versions are ~ppc64, too.