Emerging OpenSSL Fails if the number of jobs set in MAKEOPTS is set to -j3. It may also happen on -j2, so I'm guessing it's caused by the "check" job jumping in before it should, and checking an incomplete hash. The problem occours when the openssl build gets to the 'x509' test, which fails with error-level 1.
Don't restrict bugs without any reason, please...
ive been emerging openssl on a quad box with -j6 for a while now and have not hit this issue you forgot to post `emerge info` and some actual build errors would be useful