Ok I have just installed dev-python/virtualenv but configure still falls over ,unable to create virtualenv.
Created attachment 436924 [details] build log for firefox 47
As an addition thunderbird is falling over with the exact same fault
What USE flags is your dev-lang/python:2.7 built with?
(In reply to Wiktor W Brodlo from comment #3) > What USE flags is your dev-lang/python:2.7 built with? gdbm ipv6 ncurses readline sqlite ssl threads wide-unicode xml
Try rebuilding openssl and python:2.7 with USE='-bindist ssl'. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 529484 ***
(In reply to Coacher from comment #5) > Try rebuilding openssl and python:2.7 with USE='-bindist ssl'. > > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 529484 *** That suggestion has appeared to work ok,I have made ssl as a global use rather than individual