Mark Hobley <markhobley@hotpop.donottypethisbit.com> wrote:
> David W Noon <dwnoon@spamtrap.ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> Since the name is "/bin/sh", this would indicate a chroot jail on a noexec
>> filesystem.
>
> You might be on to something there. I don't know portage that well. I am
> a new user of Gentoo, but on my system /tmp, /home, and /var are all
> symlinks to subdirectories of /local, which is a noexec filesystem.

It must have been this. I remounted /local with execute permissions, and
the package build completed normally.

Cheers,

Mark.

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