Emerging blas-atlas without g77 installed gives the error message that g77 is not present and g77 must be added to the USE flags of gcc (and re-emerge gcc). This is incorrect - f77 rather than g77 must be added to the USE flags. A trivial change is needed to prevent people wasting time re-emerging with USE flags that don't do anything... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Emerge blas-atlas without g77 present 2. 3.
Fixed in cvs. Thanks for the bug report.