I have that at compile phase. ----------------------------------------- Skipping implicit fixer: buffer Skipping implicit fixer: idioms Skipping implicit fixer: set_literal Skipping implicit fixer: ws_comma /usr/bin/python2.7 setup.py build build --build-base /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/psycopg-2.4.6-r1/work/psycopg2-2.4.6-python2_7 --build-lib /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/psycopg-2.4.6-r1/work/psycopg2-2.4.6-python2_7/lib --build-scripts /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/psycopg-2.4.6-r1/work/psycopg2-2.4.6-python2_7/scripts Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 459, in <module> use_pydatetime = int(parser.get('build_ext', 'use_pydatetime')) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/configparser.py", line 798, in get d = self._unify_values(section, vars) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/configparser.py", line 1154, in _unify_values raise NoSectionError(section) configparser.NoSectionError: No section: 'build_ext' ------------------------------------------------------ Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.11.48 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.7.2, glibc-2.16.0, 3.7.1-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.7.1-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-2620M_CPU_@_2.70GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 8094572 total, 2296816 free KiB Swap: 9437180 total, 9417132 free Timestamp of tree: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 3.1.9 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p42 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.8-r1, 2.7.3-r3, 3.2.3-r2 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.9 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.10.2-r2::kde dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.27.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2::sabayon-distro sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8::sabayon-distro sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.7 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.16.0 Repositories: gentoo gbin kde mv pentoo plab sabayon sabayon-distro sunrise zugaina laurentb dev-zero ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -flto" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openfire/resources/security/ /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-3.0/conf /usr/share/polkit-1/actions" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="${EPREFIX}/etc/gconf /etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -flto" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache collision-protect config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/ ftp://chi-10g-1-mirror.fastsoft.net/pub/linux/gentoo/gentoo-distfiles/ http://gentoo.gossamerhost.com ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-flto" MAKEOPTS="-j5" 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="/var/lib/layman/gbin-overlay /var/lib/layman/kde /var/lib/layman/mv /var/lib/layman/pentoo /var/lib/layman/plab /var/lib/layman/sabayon /var/lib/layman/sabayon-distro /var/lib/layman/sunrise /var/lib/layman/zugaina /var/lib/layman/laurentb /var/lib/layman/dev-zero" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac aacplus aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 aotuv ares asf avahi avx berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdaudio cdda cdr cjk cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus declarative directfb divx4linux dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emboss emul-linux-x86 encode exif fam fbcon fbsplash ffmpeg firefox flac fortran freetype gcj gd gdbm geoip gif glitz go gpm gtk gtk2 htmlhandbook http i8x0 iconv icu idn imagemagick immqt-bc jack java java6 javascript jfs joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde kdepim kdexdeltas kipi laptop lcms libcaca lzma m17n-lib mad midi mmap mmx mng modplug modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib musepack musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ntfs obex offensive ogg oggvorbis opencl openexr opengl openmp pam pango pch pcmcia pcre pdf phonon plasma png policykit postgres ppds python python3 qt3 qt3support qt4 rdesktop readline reiserfs samba sasl scanner sdl semantic-desktop session socks5 speex spell sqlite sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg tcpd theora threads tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb usepackagedmakefiles v4l v4l2 vaapi vcd vhosts vim-syntax vorbis wavpack wifi wmf wxwidgets x264 xcb xcomposite xine xpm xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib zsh-completion" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" 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="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd 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 sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="canon" 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" GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en en_US" PHP_TARGETS="php5-4" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19" SANE_BACKENDS="genesys" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel radeon" 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" USE_PYTHON="2.7-pypy-2.0 2.7 3.2" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
ok I "found" out why. For reference if it happens to somebody, I had stale files in my python tree: rm /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/configparser.* Fixed it.
