the current and only povray in portage seg faults on my machine. the executable built manually from the source on povray.org works fine. patrick@tulkas ~/povray-3.6.1 $ emerge --info Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] 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: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /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/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="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 aac aalib accessibility acpi alsa audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 caps cdda cdparanoia cdr corba crypt curl daap distcc doc dri dts dvb dvd dxr3 eds emacs emboss encode examples exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm ggi gif glut gmp gnutls gpm gstreamer i8x0 idn imagemagic imlib ipv6 jack javascript jpeg kde ladcca lcms libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mng motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png povray python qt quicktime readline samba sdl sndfile sox spell sqlite ssl subversion svg tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userlocales vcd vcxd vorbis wifi xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xpm xv zercoonf zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Reopen with some debugging information, not much we could do until then. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bugzilla-howto.xml