I have been testing packages to see if they can be keyworded ~ppc, and I found that biew works fine if the inline assembly is disabled in the makefile (TARGET_PLATFORM=generic). I'll attach this change as a small patch to the current ebuild. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/ppc/2004.3, gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 ppc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 ppc 750FX Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 7 2005, 00:43:07)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4, 1.6.3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.90.0.3-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.2-r7 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.22 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=750 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /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="-O3 -mcpu=750 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache collision-protect cvs digest distlocks keepwork maketest sandbox sfperms strict test" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/cvsroot/gentoo-x86" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc X alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd emboss esd font-server fortran gd gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit libwww motif mp3 mpeg ncurses oggvorbis pam pdflib perl png qt readline ruby spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml2 xprint xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Created attachment 60481 [details, diff] patch to make biew-5.6.2.ebuild work for ppc
Patch merged into the tree. Thanks :)