sys-apps/smartmontools-5.42 works fine for me on mips architecture. It deserves a ~mips keyword at least. flummox ~ # equery list smartmontools * Searching for smartmontools ... [IP-] [ ] sys-apps/smartmontools-5.42:0 flummox ~ # smartctl -a /dev/sda smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [mips64-linux-3.2.9] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net Vendor: SEAGATE Product: ST336753LW Revision: DX10 User Capacity: 36,420,075,008 bytes [36.4 GB] Logical block size: 512 bytes Serial number: 3HX2DA8F Device type: disk Transport protocol: Parallel SCSI (SPI-4) Local Time is: Sun Mar 4 16:45:50 2012 EST Device supports SMART and is Enabled Temperature Warning Enabled SMART Health Status: OK Current Drive Temperature: 57 C Drive Trip Temperature: 68 C Elements in grown defect list: 0 Vendor (Seagate) cache information Blocks sent to initiator = 4200454676 Blocks received from initiator = 685677711 Blocks read from cache and sent to initiator = 1364649013 Number of read and write commands whose size <= segment size = 613770561 Number of read and write commands whose size > segment size = 13689699 Vendor (Seagate/Hitachi) factory information number of hours powered up = 53333.20 number of minutes until next internal SMART test = 48 Error counter log: Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors read: 8347160 0 0 8347160 8347160 15441.304 0 write: 0 0 0 0 0 3906.305 0 verify: 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 Non-medium error count: 0 [GLTSD (Global Logging Target Save Disable) set. Enable Save with '-S on'] SMART Self-test log Num Test Status segment LifeTime LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ] Description number (hours) # 1 Background long Completed - 1 - [- - -] Long (extended) Self Test duration: 672 seconds [11.2 minutes] flummox ~ # Reproducible: Always flummox ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.10.49 (default/linux/mips/10.0/multilib/n32, gcc-4.6.1, glibc-2.13-r4, 3.2.9 mips64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.2.9-mips64-R5000_V2.1_FPU_V1.0-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p20 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3, 3.1.4-r3 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.9.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.5.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r3 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.2-r1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r4 Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="mips ~mips" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="mips64-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=r5000 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="mips64-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=r5000 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-Os -march=r5000 -fomit-frame-pointer" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://jove.eng.yale.edu/gentoo-portage" USE="berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx device-mapper gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 memlimit mips modules mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly offensive pam pcre pppd readline session ssl sysfs tcpd unicode xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="au1x00" 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 cgi cgid 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev impact newport dummy v4l" 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: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS flummox ~ #
should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report! Commit message: Add mips love http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-apps/smartmontools/smartmontools-5.43.ebuild?r1=1.1&r2=1.2 http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-apps/smartmontools/smartmontools-9999.ebuild?r1=1.8&r2=1.9
