ltrace-0.4-r1 succesfully builds and runs on sparc64 machine (Ultra 10) Works as expected. Didn't try to install earlier versions, but changelog on debian site says that sparc support exist in ltrace starting from 0.3.34 : http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/l/ltrace/ltrace_0.4-1/changelog http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=35524 Please remove '-sparc' and add '~sparc' or 'sparc' instead. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. echo 'dev-util/ltrace -* ~*' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords 2. emerge -v ltrace Actual Results: Example of output: sunflower ~ # ltrace /bin/false __libc_start_main(68288, 1, 0xffa55614, 74240, 74368 <unfinished ...> setlocale(6, "") = "C" bindtextdomain("coreutils", "/usr/share/locale") = "/usr/share/locale" textdomain("coreutils") = "coreutils" __cxa_atexit(69088, 0, 0, 0, 3072) = 0 exit(1 <unfinished ...> __fpending(0xf7eea888, 0, 66516, 0xf7f24568, 0) = 0 fclose(0xf7eea888) = 0 __fpending(0xf7eea728, 0, 66516, 0xf7f25850, 0) = 0 fclose(0xf7eea728) = 0 +++ exited (status 1) +++ sunflower ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2006.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r5, 2.6.20 sparc64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.20 sparc64 sun4u Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:47:01 +0000 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r6 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -pipe" CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo" LINGUAS="en en_GB ru" 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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa bitmap-fonts cli cracklib cups dri eds emboss encode fbcon gcc64 gif gtk gtk2 iconv imlib isdnlog jpeg libwww mad mbox midi mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl pam pcre perl png pppd python qt3 readline reflection sdl session sparc spl ssl symlink truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_GB ru" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="mach64 mga sunffb fbdev" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Made it ~sparc, thanks for the info.