Better version than previous, suggested by Chewi - thanks!
---
 targets/stage3/stage3-preclean-chroot.sh | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/targets/stage3/stage3-preclean-chroot.sh
b/targets/stage3/stage3-preclean-chroot.sh
index 027dedea..33a700a6 100755
--- a/targets/stage3/stage3-preclean-chroot.sh
+++ b/targets/stage3/stage3-preclean-chroot.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ cleanup_stages
  if [ -n "${clst_DISTCC}" ]
 then
-	run_merge -C sys-devel/distcc || exit 1
+	portageq has_version / sys-devel/distcc
+	if [ $? == 0 ]; then
+		run_merge -C sys-devel/distcc || exit 1
+	fi
 fi
  if [ -n "${clst_ICECREAM}" ]
-- 
2.13.0