http://www.logilab.org/projects/pylint/0.6.1 and http://www.logilab.org/projects/common/0.9.1 show that updates versions of these two with some bugfixes are available. Just copying the pylint-0.6.0 and logilab-common-0.9.0 ebuilds over seems to work fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -va1 pylint (on a ~x86 system) Portage 2.0.51-r15 (hardened/x86/2.6, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r7-m2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r7-m2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9 Python: dev-lang/python-2.4-r2 [2.4 (#1, Feb 15 2005, 21:26:42)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb -frename-registers" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb -frename-registers" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache confcache distlocks noauto prelink sandbox userpriv usersandbox verify-rdepend" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage//packages/x86/" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage/" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X alsa ansi bzip2 ccache cdr crypt dlloader emacs faad fbcon flac gnome gtk2 hardened javascript jit jpeg libcaca maildir md5sum mmx mmx2 mng mozdevelop mozsvg mpeg ncurses nethack network nls no-old-linux nptl nptlonly oggvorbis opengl pam png python qemu-fast quicktime readline rtc sdl softmmu spell sse ssl svg symlink tetex truetype truetype-fonts unicode userlocales xml2 xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
both bumped on CVS. Thanks for the report.