Not a show blocker but another one that doesn't like gcc-4.1 Am not having problems with it running RE; Bug 132665. Works fine for me emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre10-r5 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15.1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15.1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] 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: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /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=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ " MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt cups dbus dri eds emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse ssl symlink tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Should be marked as wontfix b/c testing version(0.8.4) compiles correctly.
Please, reopen if 0.8.4 doesn't work for you.