crossdev's emerge-wrapper script does not set CTARGET. While this variable is not terribly important outside toolchain building, a few packages are known to use it. From the Embedded handbook concerning CTARGET: "[Defines the] Platform the binaries built by cross-toolchain will run on. Redundant, but there's no harm in setting this, and a few binaries do like it." If this could be added to the emerge-wrapper script, it would be one less thing to worry about when cross-compiling. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.1.6.13 (unavailable, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.32-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.32-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P8800_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Unknown ccache version 2.4 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.6.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="mmx sse sse2" Unset: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS
CTARGET matters when compiling the cross-compiler, not when cross-compiling packages with the cross-compiler unless you have an actual error to show here ...
