The xautomation package lacks an amd64 keyword -- I gave it x86 in package.keywords, it builds fine and I use the "xte" program without issues. Portage 2.1.1_pre2-r4 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6/amd64-vanilla, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r10 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r10 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: 0.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.0.0_rc1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.16 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig confcache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo" LANG="en_CA.UTF-8" 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" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt cups curl dbus directfb dlloader dmx dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode exo expat fbcon ffmpeg flac fontconfig foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gmp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal howl icecast idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg junit lcms libcaca lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mikmod mng mouse mozilla mp3 mpeg musepack mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg openal opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby samba sdl session speex spell spl ssl startup-notification svg tcpd tetex theora thunar-vfs tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis x264 xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xorg xpm xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_tdfx video_cards_vesa" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
~amd64 in portage, thanks!