I just created a fresh chroot from the latest stage present in the mirrors and tried to update it here is the following: - after doing the second emerge -u system (the first went sane so I could update portage) -- perl cannot build because the depend list gests mangled with an initial 0 -- gcc cannot build because the generated Makefile contains the following #### host and target specific makefile fragments come in here. /bin/gsed /bin/gsed /bin/gsed running the same configure outside portage leads to a sane makefile
Looks like chrooting inside a jail made the env completely a mess. doing a clean setup using the master made both issues disappear.