during the configure phase of compiling (emerge maildrop) this is the trailing info, followed by the emerge info. checking default PATH for commands... /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin checking for qmail-inject... no checking mail transport agent... /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi checking location of system mailboxes... configure: error: Cannot determine default mailbox configure: error: ./configure failed for maildrop !!! ERROR: net-mail/maildrop-1.4.0-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 37, Exitcode 1 !!! bad ./configure postman root # emerge info Portage 2.0.46-r12 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.1, glibc-2.3.1-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi cups encode gif gpm imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pdflib png qtmt quicktime sdl spell svga truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib slang readline tcpd ssl perl python -X -gtk -gnome -alsa -arts -kde -qt krb5 kerberos sasl ldap pam crypt -gdbm berkdb imap"COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon -march=athlon -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon -march=athlon -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j4" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
maildrop-1.5.2 has been added to portage and marked stable for x86. This build has not problems detecting this on my test system.