Just a thought Pieter: is your system clock set correctly?  On my TiBook 
OSX reset to unix day zero a little while ago, for no reason I could 
discern.  I've seen several reports of incorrectly set clocks (esp. 
those set to the future) causing ebuilds to enter infinite loops.

David

Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've got some problems emerging ghostscript. The process starts looping
>forever when running ./obj/genarch ./obj/arch.h (making espgs-7.05.3).
>
>Could anyone (on a G4) machine test if he/she can (re)build ghostscript?
>Running make distclean && ./configure && make inside the espgs
>work directory doesn't work for me. Could this looping be related to the
>changing from GNU ghostscript to ESP ghostscript? I have absolutely no clue why some
>people are able to emerge ghostscript on ppc.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Pieter
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