after emerging hdparm, I noticecd this line # disc1_args"-d1" there should be an '=' sign before "-dl" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge hdparm Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.23) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.23 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 distcc 2.11.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O2 -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O2 -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs keeptemp keepwork" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/unix/Linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.ca.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 crypt foomaticdb gtk2 jpeg libg++ libwww mikmod ncurses nls spell xml2 zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline tcpd pam ssl perl python acl acpi apache2 bindist cscope curl doc mbox mmx samba -oss -apm -arts -avi -cups -encode -gif -gpm -gtk -imlib -kde -gnome -mad -motif -mpeg -oggvorbis -opengl -pdflib -png -qt -quicktime -sdl -svga -truetype -X -xmms -xv"
was fixed in cvs sometime ago, thanks for the report