When I just tried to emerge bind-tools on a newly installed system, it went through a bit of the configure process, and then it complained that it couldn't determine the object suffix or some similar sounding thing. FEATURES=-distcc makes it happier. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
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I'm paying more attention to the similar bug, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84537 By now, I'm thinking that the problem is some combination of autoconf and GCC build mismatch.