Ive tested hunspell-1.1.3 on amd64 (with ~amd64 keyword) and it installs and works for me. # emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-4.1.0-beta20060210, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2-r1 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: 2.16.91.0.6 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" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/kde/devel/env /usr/kde/devel/share/config /usr/kde/devel/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -msse3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks nostrip sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/portage /usr/local/overlays/kdesvn /usr/local/overlays/test-kde /usr/local/overlays/gcc4" SYNC="rsync://homie/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X acl alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 crypt cups debug eds emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gif gpm gstreamer gtk2 imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde lzw lzw-tiff mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nsplugin opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales xml xpm xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
1.1.3 has some problems on amd64, namely it builds a non-pic .a that prevents from linking to it. Anyway, this is fixed in 1.1.4-r1 and I already keyworded it :)