By default, I have MAKEOPTS=-j32, and distcc hosts contains 8 hosts entries with /4 (8*4=32). Wine will fail with this amount of available compile nodes, eventualy giving some "Waiting for child process bla bla" error message. I haven't found the upper limit, but it failed when I removed the /4 and MAKEOPTS=-j8. It succesfully builded with MAKEOPTS=-j2. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: I think there should be an upper limit to MAKEOPTS, maybe -j2 which seem to do the job.
wine-20050111 now in portage, try that if it fails, actually post some info (like a log of the build failure, `emerge wine >& log`