sysvinit has been separated from baselayout. A ~x86 bootstrap installs baselayout but not sysvinit, so the new system will have no /sbin/init.
Thanks. I think this is fixed by the following patch which I just applied. I didn't bump the rev since this is a compile-time change rather than run-time. # This version of baselayout needs gawk in /bin, but as we do not have # a c++ compiler during bootstrap, we cannot depend on it if "bootstrap" # or "build" are in USE. RDEPEND="${DEPEND} - !build? ( !bootstrap? ( + !build? ( !bootstrap? ( >=sys-apps/gawk-3.1.1-r2 ) ) >=sys-apps/sysvinit-2.84 - >=sys-apps/gawk-3.1.1-r2 - >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.11z-r6 - ) )" + >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.11z-r6"
*** Bug 55854 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I did a bug search but database must have been out of sync ..