Recommend stuff for testing: http://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/index.html
I've tested maven-bin-2.0.2 with sun-jdk-1.4.2.10-r2 against x86. To do this, i followed http://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/index.html as recommended. Seems to work fine ... Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.15.6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15.6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+ 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-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 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-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/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig colission-protect distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/gentoo/gentoo " LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X acpi alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 bzlib cairo cli crypt ctype dba dbus dri dvd emboss encode exif expat fam fastbuild firefox foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal idn imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg junit lcms libg++ libwww mad memlimit mikmod mime mmx mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png posix pppd python quicktime readline real ruby sdl session simplexml soap sockets spell spl sqlite sse ssl tcpd tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis win32codecs wma xine xml xml2 xsl xv xvid zlib linguas_en linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
x86 stable, thanks for testing Matthias
look, even the amd64 team made it after some time...