Compilation of sci-libs/plplot-5.5.2 failed on amd64 with the error message: !!! ERROR: sci-libs/plplot-5.5.2 failed. !!! Function dyn_install, Line 1114, Exitcode 0 !!! File /var/tmp/portage/plplot-5.5.2/image///usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_plplotcmodule.so matches a file type that is not allowed in /usr/lib !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg collision-protect distlocks multilib-strict sandbox sfperms strict usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.ISO8859-1" LINGUAS="en pt_BR fr de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/local/portage/packages.amd64" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 3dnowex X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr eds emacs encode fam fbcon ffmpeg font-server foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java jp2 jpeg kde ldap libcaca libwww lirc lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mbox motif mozilla mp3 mpeg nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pam perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell ssl svg tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis wmf xine xml xml2 xmms xpm xrandr xv xvmc zlib linguas_en linguas_pt_BR linguas_fr linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
Jose, please remerge python-2.4, this will fix your problem.