As far as I understood portage configuration is being moved to /etc/portage. However, portage will complain if /etc/make.profile is missing, even if /etc/portage/make.profile exists. Portage continues to work without any apparent problems, so only the error message is invalid. !!! /etc/make.profile is not a symlink and will probably prevent most merges. !!! It should point into a profile within /var/cache/portage/gentoo/profiles/ !!! (You can safely ignore this message when syncing. It's harmless.) Reproducible: Always
Thanks, this is fixed in git now: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=5805d06ee0b18114b23bbc2a9a4acff72c350e5c
This is fixed in 2.1.9.8 and 2.2_rc84.