confcache and the confcache-FEATURE are working on my iBook G4, just watched the conf of two packets and the second has some "(cached) yes" to reproduce: 1. doing overlay magic with dev-util/confcache-0.4.2 to add ~ppc keyword (copy, edit, ebuild ... digest) 2. emerge it 3. set confcache in make.conf 4. emerge more than 1 package to check if confcache works emerge --info: Portage 2.1_pre5-r1 (default-linux/ppc/ppc32/2006.0/G4, gcc-4.0.2, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 ppc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 ppc 7447A, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 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: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc ~ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -funroll-loops -DHAVE_ALTIVEC_H" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -funroll-loops -DHAVE_ALTIVEC_H" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache confcache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.wh2i.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://ftp6.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.rz.tu-bs.de/pub/mirror/ftp.gentoo.org/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo/" LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ALL="de_DE.UTF-8" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/local /usr/local/overlays/gentoo-de" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc X a52 aac alsa altivec apache2 apm asf bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 caps cdr crypt dvd emboss encode esd fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 idn imlib jack jpeg kerberos ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmap motif mozilla mp3 mpeg multislot ncurses nls nocd nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdk sdl socks5 speex sqlite ssl tcpd tetex theora truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userlocales v4l vorbis xml xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU video_cards_radeon video_cards_ati" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
Hansmi already added ~ppc, thanks for reporting!
