Apparently, though unproven, at 17:38 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Kevin O'Gorman did opine thusly:
> > /etc/make.profile is a symlink to something in $PORTDIR/profiles/ and > > that > > Odd. Not on my system, it's not. It's a directory with two entries: > eapi: a text file, length 2, with contents "2\n". > parent: a text file with two lines: > .. > ../../../../../../targets/desktop/kde > The parent is obviously not relative to the /etc/make.profile directory. > Portage works, > pretty much, although I have an unbuildable essential package at the moment > with a bug just filed. Eix says my portage is 2.1.9.42. You ls'ed the target of the symlink, not the symlink itself. Omit the trailing slash in the argument to ls and you'll see it. Either that, or your system is busted. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com