I have verified works for ppc64 by applying patches to this package. Please add the ~ppc64 KEYWORDS to app-editors/emacs-21.3-r2. # emerge info emacs Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-ppc64-2004.2, gcc-3.4.0, glibc-2.3.4.20040605-r0, 2.6 .7-r0) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-r0 ppc64 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/s hare/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache digest sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp/ http://gentoo.gg3.net/" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.jp.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="altivec berkdb cjk cups dvd foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imlib jpeg libwww mitshm nls oggvorbis oss pam perl png ppc64 python readline sdl slang ssl tcpd t ruetype xv"
Created attachment 34272 [details, diff] patch for emacs on ppc64 This is the patch from the fedora SRPM (emacs-21.3-14.src.rpm).
Created attachment 34273 [details, diff] patch for emacs ebuild
pulls in: gnome-base/gnome-desktop x x11-libs/startup-notification Thanks Yuta!
stick a fork in it