--- portage-2.2_rc64/bin/ebuild
+++ portage-2.2_rc64/bin/ebuild
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 	signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, exithandler)
 	signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, exithandler)
+	signal.signal(signal.SIGPIPE, signal.SIG_DFL)
 
 except KeyboardInterrupt:
 	sys.exit(1)