So I tried an emerge of native-cctools today after syncing the portage
tree, and get the following:

>>> Original instance of package unmerged safely.
 * Switching to powerpc-native-aix5.2.0.0-0 ...

         [ ok ]

 * Please remember to run:

 *  (bash) # source /home/mdmcmull/.overlay/etc/profile
 * or
 *  (tcsh) # . /home/mdmcmull/.overlay/etc/csh.login

>>> sys-devel/native-cctools-0 merged.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/bin/emerge", line 16, in ?
    sys.exit(emerge_main())
  File "/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/lib/portage/pym/emerge/__init__.py",
line 5629, in emerge_main
    myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner)
  File "/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/lib/portage/pym/emerge/__init__.py",
line 5102, in action_build
    retval = mergetask.merge(pkglist, favorites, mtimedb)
  File "/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/lib/portage/pym/emerge/__init__.py",
line 3162, in merge
    prev_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes)
  File "/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py",
line 3828, in doebuild
    vartree=vartree, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes)
  File "/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py",
line 4022, in merge
    mydbapi=mydbapi, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes)
  File "/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py",
line 1920, in merge
    cleanup=cleanup, mydbapi=mydbapi, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes)
  File "/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py",
line 1599, in treewalk
    elog_process(self.mycpv, self.settings)
  File "/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/elog/__init__.py",
line 100, in elog_process
    m.process(mysettings, cpv, mod_logentries, mod_fulllog)
  File "/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/elog/mod_save_summary.py",
line 15, in process
    os.makedirs(elogdir)
  File "/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/lib/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
    makedirs(head, mode)
  File "/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/lib/python2.4/os.py", line 159, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/portage'


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