kumba marked lua-5.0.2-r1 mips, but it is a pmasked and outdated ebuild that was not meant for going stable; please stablize lua-5.0.2.
>>> Test phase [test]: dev-lang/lua-5.0.2 cd include; make all make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/portage/lua-5.0.2/work/lua-5.0.2/include' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/lua-5.0.2/work/lua-5.0.2/include' cd src; make all make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/portage/lua-5.0.2/work/lua-5.0.2/src' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/lua-5.0.2/work/lua-5.0.2/src' cd src/lib; make all make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/portage/lua-5.0.2/work/lua-5.0.2/src/lib' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/lua-5.0.2/work/lua-5.0.2/src/lib' cd src/luac; make all make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/portage/lua-5.0.2/work/lua-5.0.2/src/luac' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/lua-5.0.2/work/lua-5.0.2/src/luac' cd src/lua; make all make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/portage/lua-5.0.2/work/lua-5.0.2/src/lua' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/lua-5.0.2/work/lua-5.0.2/src/lua' bin/lua test/hello.lua Hello world, from Lua 5.0.2! ^^ Looks like it works to me. Consider it marked stable. :-)
