The ebuild for sqsh-2.1-r1 tries to patch config.h using the patch command, not epatch. The compile pauses because patch thinks the supplied patch is reversed, and asks if it should assume -R. The patch was added from bug 28256, taking out the patch line doesn't appear to produce the warnings talked about in 28256, and sqsh works. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge sqsh 2. 3. Actual Results: creating src/config.h patching file src/config.h Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] emerge info Gentoo Base System version 1.6.10 Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 29 2005, 14:02:06)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.4, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.7.9-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 acpi alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd dvdr emboss encode fam foomaticdb fortran freetds gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl imlib javascript jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmap mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mssql ncurses nls nptl odbc offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl pic png python quicktime readline samba sdl spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml2 xprint xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
fixed in portage.