I was able to emerge the ebuild and point br at /dev/tts/1 (serial port B on the back of the ultra5). It works fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2, 2.4.28- sparc-r3 sparc64) =============================================================== == System uname: 2.4.28-sparc-r3 sparc64 sun4u Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.23 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc" CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config / usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache collision-protect distlocks maketest sandbox userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/unix/Linux/ gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="sparc X arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups encode esd f77 fbcon font-server foomaticdb fortran gcc64 gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt readline sdl slang spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Added ~sparc keyword. Thanks for the bug report.