I did not want to tread on another thread so:: I have bindist set in make.conf. I'm not sure why, as it has most likely been there a while..... I have plent of compiler power...
# equery hasuse bindist * Searching for USE flag bindist ... [IP-] [ ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8z_p7:0.9.8 [IP-] [ ] dev-libs/openssl-1.0.2c:0 [IP-] [ ] mail-client/thunderbird-38.1.0:0 [IP-] [ ] media-libs/freetype-2.5.5:2 [IP-] [ ] media-libs/mesa-10.3.7-r1:0 [IP-] [ ] net-misc/openssh-6.9_p1-r2:0 [IP-] [ ] www-client/firefox-38.1.0:0 So just removed it and recompile anything? Are there any reasons to keep it set in make.conf for any of those packages? James