The dependencies included in virtual/jdk-1.6.0 seem to be incorrect. The way the dependencies are set, when it is emerged on x86-solaris, it attempts to emerge the IBM JDK. I believe it should emerge the SUN JDK instead, which in the current ebuild is only a valid dependency resolution for x86 and amd64. FYI: I have successfully emerged the SUN JDK on the x86-solaris box I am running gentoo-prefix on. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge jdk on x86-solaris Actual Results: portage attempts to emerge the IBM JDK Expected Results: emerge of SUN JDK emerge --info: Portage 2.2.00.15274-prefix (prefix/sunos/solaris/5.11/x86, gcc-4.2.4, unavailable, 5.11 i86pc) ================================================================= System uname: Solaris-2.11-i86pc-i386-32bit-ELF Timestamp of tree: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:35:11 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.63-r01.1 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.2-r00.1, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.51.0.5 sys-devel/gcc: 4.2.4-r01.2, 4.4.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r00.2 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86-solaris" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1" CBUILD="i386-pc-solaris2.11" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=native" CHOST="i386-pc-solaris2.11" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -march=native" DISTDIR="/opt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests collision-protect distlocks fixpackages news nostrip parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="" PKGDIR="/opt/gentoo/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/opt/gentoo/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/opt/gentoo/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/opt/gentoo/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.prefix.freens.org/gentoo-portage-prefix" USE="X branding cracklib cxx firefox gif gtk java java6 jpeg jpeg2k modules mono mp3 mp4 ncurses nls nsplugin offensive ogg perl prefix qt4 readline samba sqlite ssl svg truetype unicode x86-solaris zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="SunOS" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="SunOS" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Which ebuild did you use? Also, is this bug still valid?
this has been fixed a while ago, sorry for the late response
