The build process depends on 32-bit libraries. As far as I can tell, SML/NJ is available for sparc processors, which are 64-bit, so requiring 32-bit libraries on amd64 systems should be unnecessary. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run emerge smlnj 2. Watch it fail # emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.1-r0, 2.6.33.3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.33.3-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9550_@_2.83GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 06 May 2010 10:45:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p5 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r2, 3.1.2-r3 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.33 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=core2 -msse4.1 -mcx16 -msahf --param l1-cache-size=32 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=6144 -ftree-loop-linear -fgcse-sm -fgcse-las -ftree-loop-im -ftree-loop-ivcanon -fivopts -frename-registers -fweb" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CPPFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=core2 -msse4.1 -mcx16 -msahf --param l1-cache-size=32 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=6144 -ftree-loop-linear -fgcse-sm -fgcse-las -ftree-loop-im -ftree-loop-ivcanon -fivopts -frename-registers -fweb" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=core2 -msse4.1 -mcx16 -msahf --param l1-cache-size=32 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=6144 -ftree-loop-linear -fgcse-sm -fgcse-las -ftree-loop-im -ftree-loop-ivcanon -fivopts -frename-registers -fweb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests buildpkg ccache distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=core2 -msse4.1 -mcx16 -msahf --param l1-cache-size=32 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=6144 -ftree-loop-linear -fgcse-sm -fgcse-las -ftree-loop-im -ftree-loop-ivcanon -fivopts -frename-registers -fweb" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl alsa amd64 berkdb bzip2 cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dvd dvdr fftw fortran gd gdbm gif gnutls gpm hal iconv ipv6 java java6 jpeg kde midi mmx mng modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntpl opengl openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 readline reflection session spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 svg sysfs tcpd tiff unicode xml xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ens1371" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" 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="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard vmmouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vmware" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 230579 [details] Build log from "emerge smlnj"
Hi Richard, it's been a while since I really looked, but AFAIU building smlnj relies on a boot.ARCH.tgz file being available for your ARCH. ATM there are four only: boot.ppc-unix.tgz boot.sparc-unix.tgz boot.x86-unix.tgz boot.x86-win32.tgz so it isn't possible at this time to support amd64 in any other way than in 32-bit mode.
