Platform is SUSE Enterprise 10 SP2. Bootstrapping fails at this step, ./bootstrap-prefix.sh $EPREFIX portage with the console message checking for id... /local/tmp/b/tmp/usr/bin/id checking whether /local/tmp/b/tmp/usr/bin/id is good enough... yes checking for python... /local/tmp/b/tmp/usr/bin/python checking whether /local/tmp/b/tmp/usr/bin/python 2.6.4 >= 2.7... configure: error: need at least version 2.7 of python
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 376913 ***