Created attachment 465100 [details] build log for amd64 multilib firefox-50.0.1 update of firefox-50.0.1 fails due to configure not able to create virtualenv.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 529484 ***
(In reply to Coacher from comment #1) > > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 529484 *** this's affecting thunderbird as well ,I have the ssl flag in make.conf,and rebuilt the system. Also put a use flag into package.use for dev-lang/python. rebuilt python which pulled in 3.5 but did not rebuild 27 or 34. still no joy.
(In reply to Geoff Madden from comment #2) > (In reply to Coacher from comment #1) > > > > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 529484 *** > > this's affecting thunderbird as well ,I have the ssl flag in make.conf,and > rebuilt the system. Also put a use flag into package.use for > dev-lang/python. rebuilt python which pulled in 3.5 but did not rebuild 27 > or 34. still no joy. OK the cure in my case was to put individual ssl statements in to package.use for each version on my system. Then rebuild all versions. Firefox is now building & I suspect that thunderbird will also. But as to the question as why the ssl flag wasn't called for each version remains a mystery.