Maya 4.5 for Linux is built to run on a RedHat 7.2 or later. Gentoo's libstdc++ is not 100% compatible with RedHat's (not even library-compat's!), and for this reason Maya aborts with the following error message: /usr/aw/maya4.5/bin/maya.bin: relocation error: /usr/aw/maya4.5/lib/libTranslators.so: undefined symbol: __dynamic_cast_2 A quick search shows that our libstdc++'s have __dynamic_cast but not __dynamic_cast_2. It would be nice to have a higher compatibility and get that symbol in the lib just like RedHat's. In the mean time I'm trying to see if a quick and dirty workaround (copy the lib from a RH installation and load with LD_PRELOAD) solves the problem. Maybe this could implemented in a library-compat-rh sort of ebuild. I'll keep you informed.
*** Bug 27425 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 27411 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
i tested maya 5.0 and it fails over here: ../bin/maya.bin: relocation error: /usr/aw/maya5.0/lib/libFoundation.so: symbol errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference that leads me to believe that all versions of maya for linux will not work with glibc-2.3.2 ... in other words, i'd say bug maya to fix their stuff because there really isnt much we can do about it ...
There is now a Maya ebuild in portage.