After unpacking the tarball, entering chroot et all. i tried to run /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh it failed reproducably on the file missingos.c of the portage-2.0.38 package (see the URL for complete output), causing the installation to abort
Oops, forgot to mention it: I used the stage 1 tarball of 1.4-rc1
is this still a issue ? 1.4-rc2 is available portage, binutils and baselayout have been updated.
We're on rc3/final now and this is old.