Installed redir-2.2.1 on sparc and works okay. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge redir
emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2, 2.4.30-sparc sparc64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.30-sparc sparc64 sun4u Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 27 2005, 06:11:22)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.23 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mcpu=ultrasparc" CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mcpu=ultrasparc" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/Mirrors/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="sparc arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups dlloader encode esd fbcon foomaticdb fortran gcc64 gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imlib jpeg libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python readline samba sdl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
net-misc/redir was already ~sparc, so going stable with it. Thanks for the report.