I tried to emerge ncftp-3.2.2-r1, which is a dependancy of something else, on an OSX x86 Gentoo Prefix system, and I got the following error: make[1]: Entering directory `/Users/jacob/Library/Gentoo_x86/var/tmp/portage/net-ftp/ncftp-3.2.2-r1/work/ncftp-3.2.2/Strn' i686-apple-darwin9-gcc -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -arch i386 -arch ppc -D_REENTRANT -O2 -pipe -march=nocona -msse4.1 -Wno-format-y2k -static-libgcc -DMACOSX=10507 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DMACOSX=10507 -I/Users/jacob/Library/Gentoo_x86/var/tmp/portage/net-ftp/ncftp-3.2.2-r1/work/ncftp-3.2.2 -I/Users/jacob/Library/Gentoo_x86/var/tmp/portage/net-ftp/ncftp-3.2.2-r1/work/ncftp-3.2.2/libncftp -I/Users/jacob/Library/Gentoo_x86/var/tmp/portage/net-ftp/ncftp-3.2.2-r1/work/ncftp-3.2.2/sio -I/Users/jacob/Library/Gentoo_x86/var/tmp/portage/net-ftp/ncftp-3.2.2-r1/work/ncftp-3.2.2/Strn DStrCat.c -c cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-arch" cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-arch" make[1]: *** [DStrCat.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/Users/jacob/Library/Gentoo_x86/var/tmp/portage/net-ftp/ncftp-3.2.2-r1/work/ncftp-3.2.2/Strn' A proper build.log will be attached shortly. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ./startprefix 2. emerge '= net-ftp/ncftp-3.2.2-r1' $ emerge --info Portage 2.2.00.13830-prefix (prefix/darwin/macos/10.5/x86, gcc-4.2.1, unavailable, 9.7.1 i386) ================================================================= System uname: Darwin-9.7.1-i386-32bit Timestamp of tree: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:34:13 +0000 distcc 2.18.5-Apple.1 i386-apple-darwin9.0 (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p24 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r01.1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.63-r01.1 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.2-r00.1, 1.11 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r00.2 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a-r00.1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86-macos" CBUILD="i686-apple-darwin9" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona -msse4.1" CHOST="i686-apple-darwin9" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona -msse4.1" DISTDIR="/Users/jacob/Library/Gentoo_x86/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests collision-protect distlocks fixpackages nostrip parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/Users/jacob/Library/Gentoo_x86/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/Users/jacob/Library/Gentoo_x86/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/Users/jacob/Library/Gentoo_x86/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/Users/jacob/Library/Gentoo_x86/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/Users/jacob/Library/Gentoo_x86/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.prefix.freens.org/gentoo-portage-prefix" USE="a52 aac aqua bash-completion cjk coreaudio cracklib divx fac midi mmx mmxext ncurses objc objc++ prefix readline sse sse2 ssl theora unicode x86-macos xulrunner xvid zlib" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="Darwin" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="Darwin" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 198618 [details] ncftp build.log
You got a bit further than I actually, configure already died because of the same issue. Added --disable-universal to the configure call, compiles fine now. Thanks!