sparc-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -I. -I. -O2 -mcpu=v8 -pipe -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wall -W -c log.c -o log.o sparc-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -I. -I. -O2 -mcpu=v8 -pipe -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wall -W -c backup.c -o backup.o backup.c:280: error: stray '\21' in program backup.c:280:2: warning: null character(s) ignored backup.c:280: error: stray '\30' in program backup.c:280: error: stray '\223' in program backup.c:280: error: stray '\360' in program backup.c:280: error: stray '\27' in program backup.c:280:11: warning: null character(s) ignored backup.c:280: error: syntax error before "P" backup.c:280: error: stray '\30' in program backup.c:280: error: stray '\220' in program backup.c:280: error: stray '\30' in program backup.c:280: error: stray '\350' in program [...] # grep backup.c 2457-rsync-2.6.8.log | wc -l 654054 # emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre10 (default-linux/sparc/sparc32/2005.1, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2, 2.4.32-hf32.1 sparc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.32-hf32.1 sparc sun4m Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] 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-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.26-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=v8 -pipe" CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=v8 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache confcache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://taipan.lan:8888/ http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/" MAKEOPTS="-j1 -l1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://taipan.lan/gentoo-portage" USE="sparc berkdb bzip2 crypt gdbm ipv6 ncurses nls pam perl png python readline slang spell ssl tcpd elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
sparc32 is experimental so unless you're using the new toolchain we won't even look at it.