When I try to "emerge hdparm" I get the following error message. Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/hdparm-6.3 to / >>> md5 files ;-) hdparm-5.7-r1.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) hdparm-5.9.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) hdparm-6.1.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) hdparm-6.3.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-hdparm-5.7-r1 >>> md5 files ;-) files/hdparm-conf.d.3 >>> md5 files ;-) files/hdparm-init-7 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-hdparm-5.9 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-hdparm-6.1 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-hdparm-6.3 >>> md5 src_uri ;-) hdparm-6.3.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking hdparm-6.3.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/hdparm-6.3/work >>> Source unpacked. powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -mcpu=603e -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -W -Wall -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -fkeep-inline-functions -Wwrite-strings -Waggregate-return -Wnested-externs -Wtrigraphs -O2 -mcpu=603e -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -c -o hdparm.o hdparm.c hdparm.c: In function `process_dev': hdparm.c:985: error: syntax error before "ide_task_request_t" hdparm.c:985: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union hdparm.c:986: warning: `packed' attribute ignored ... more of the same unhappy outcome ... My emerge --info is as follows... Portage 2.0.54 (!/var/portage/overlays/kurobox/profiles/kurobox, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.4.17_mvl21 ppc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.17_mvl21 ppc 82xx Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 dev-lang/python: 2.3.3, 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: 2.4.17 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=603e -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=603e -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://prometheus.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/var/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/portage/tree" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/portage/overlays/kurobox" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc X alsa apache2 berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cjk crypt cups dri dvd expat font-server gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 jpeg kde kuro libwww mailwrapper mbox milter motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl php png ppds python qt readline sasl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode xml2 xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
my guess is your linux-headers suck upgrade to latest ppc stable
