Found this due to the fact that ibiblio was down In the tk-8.3.3-r2 ebuild SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.scriptics.com/pub/tcl/tcl8_4/${PN}${PV}.tar.gz" should be SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.scriptics.com/pub/tcl/tcl8_3/${PN}${PV}.tar.gz" I fixed it by hand on my system so I could continue installing 1.4_rc1
*** Bug 9497 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
fixed in cvs, thx