* Running test phase for ruby18 ... Loaded suite test/run-test Started OO...F..... 1) Omission: this is known bug in 1.1.2 test_cflags(PkgConfigTest) /var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/pkg-config-1.1.2/work/ruby18/pkg-config-1.1.2/test/test_pkg_config.rb:20:in `test_cflags' 2) Omission: this is known bug in 1.1.2 test_cflags_only_I(PkgConfigTest) /var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/pkg-config-1.1.2/work/ruby18/pkg-config-1.1.2/test/test_pkg_config.rb:26:in `test_cflags_only_I' 3) Failure: test_libs_only_l(PkgConfigTest) [/var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/pkg-config-1.1.2/work/ruby18/pkg-config-1.1.2/test/test_pkg_config.rb:51]: <"cairo.lib -lpng14"> expected but was <"cairo.lib png14.lib"> diff: ? cairo.lib -lpng14.lib Finished in 1.124626 seconds. 11 tests, 24 assertions, 1 failures, 0 errors, 0 pendings, 2 omissions, 0 notifications 88.8889% passed Portage 2.1.10.3 (default/linux/powerpc/ppc64/10.0/32bit-userland, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.28-gentoo ppc64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-ppc64-POWER5+_-gs-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.5-r2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.81 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.12.2 Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=power5 -mtune=power5" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/vpopmail/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=power5 -mtune=power5" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms split-elog split-log strict test unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j8" 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="" SYNC="rsync://bobolink.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dri fortran gcc64 gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl ppc pppd python readline session sqlite ssl sysfs tcpd unicode xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="aoa aoa-fabric-layout aoa-onyx aoa-soundbus aoa-soundbus-i2s aoa-tas aoa-toonie powermac usb-audio via82xx" 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 cgi cgid 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="braindump flow karbon kexi kpresenter krita tables words" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev void" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="mga" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
We don't intend to run the tests so we won't fix this. Apologies that you had to run into this and report it.