If you emerge eselect 1.08 without MAKEOPTS="-j1" during the merge you get: ln -snf \ /var/tmp/portage/eselect-1.0.8/image//usr/share/man/man5/kernel.eselect.5 \ /var/tmp/portage/eselect-1.0.8/image//usr/share/man/man1/kernel-config.1 ln: creating symbolic link `/var/tmp/portage/eselect-1.0.8/image//usr/share/man/man1/kernel-config.1': No such file or directory make[2]: *** [install-symlink-kernel-config] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... MAKEOPTS="-j1" emerge eselect works fine. Reproducible: Always
emerge --info please.