[gentoo-hardened] building gentoo hardened - selinux

[Brian Fernald]

Hi,
 
I have just walked through the Gentoo SELinux handbook to build a new
system.    Whenever I come to the point of loading the security policy,  it
attempts to build a Policy of version 18 ..  It reports the following :
 
 make load
 * Creating policy.conf
 * Policy version: 18
 * Kernel version: 16
 * WARNING: Policy version mismatch.  Is your POLICYCOMPAT set correctly?
 *  See http://hardened.gentoo.org/selinux/selinux-policy.xml#doc_chap6
 *  for more information.
 * Compiling and installing policy.18
/usr/bin/checkpolicy:  loading policy configuration from
/etc/security/selinux/src/policy.conf
security:  3 users, 5 roles, 367 types, 1 bools
security:  51 classes, 24552 rules
/usr/bin/checkpolicy:  policy configuration loaded
/usr/bin/checkpolicy:  writing binary representation (version 18) to
/etc/security/selinux/policy.18
 * Building file_contexts
 * Installing file_contexts
 * Loading policy.18
/usr/sbin/load_policy:  security_load_policy failed
make: *** [tmp/load] Error 3

 
... i then changed   POLICYCOMPAT  to be 16 and tried again :
 
 make load
 * Policy version: 16
 * Kernel version: 16
 * Compiling and installing policy.16
/usr/bin/checkpolicy:  loading policy configuration from
/etc/security/selinux/src/policy.conf
security:  3 users, 5 roles, 367 types, 1 bools
security:  51 classes, 24552 rules
/usr/bin/checkpolicy:  policy configuration loaded
/usr/bin/checkpolicy:  writing binary representation (version 16) to
/etc/security/selinux/policy.16
 * Loading policy.16
/usr/sbin/load_policy:  security_load_policy failed
make: *** [tmp/load] Error 3

 
it still fails.   
 
The system is currently booted to the LiveCD (as per instructions)..  the
kernel downloaded and build was 2.6.7-hardened-r8  (emerge
hardened-dev-sources)  ..
 
Could anyone shed some light on what I am doing incorrectly ?
 
Thanks,
 
Brian