The following ebuilds work for me on ppc: app-i18n/ibus-1.2.0.20100111 app-i18n/ibus-anthy-1.2.0.20100115 $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7400, altivec supported clock : 450.000000MHz revision : 2.9 (pvr 000c 0209) bogomips : 49.81 timebase : 24907667 platform : PowerMac model : PowerMac5,1 machine : PowerMac5,1 motherboard : PowerMac5,1 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh detected as : 68 (PowerMac G4 Cube) pmac flags : 00000014 L2 cache : 1024K unified pmac-generation : NewWorld Memory : 1536 MB $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.7.16 (default/linux/powerpc/ppc32/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 ppc) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6-ppc-7400,_altivec_supported-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.6.3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=G4 -mtune=G4 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=G4 -mtune=G4 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/ron/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa altivec bash-completion bzip2 cairo cli cracklib crypt cxx dbus dri exif gif glitz gpm iconv ipv6 jpeg jpeg2k libnotify lzma mad modules ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam pcre png policykit ppc pppd python readline reflection sound spl ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora thunar tiff unicode vim-syntax vorbis xcb xml xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="usb-audio" 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="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="r128" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Thanks for the report. Marked ~ppc.