GOAL: `env ROOT=/mnt/blah CBUILD=foo CHOST=bar emerge system`

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# WORKS #
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app-arch/bzip2-1.0.2-r3
app-arch/cpio-2.5
app-arch/gzip-1.3.5-r4
app-arch/ncompress-4.2.4-r1
app-arch/tar-1.14.90-r1
app-crypt/hashalot-0.3
app-editors/nano-1.3.5
app-shells/bash-3.0-r7
app-shells/sash-3.7
dev-libs/expat-1.95.8
dev-libs/popt-1.7-r1
net-misc/iputils-021109-r3
net-misc/wget-1.9.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.8
sys-apps/busybox-1.00-r1
sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r2
sys-apps/cronbase-0.3.1
sys-apps/debianutils-1.16.7-r4
sys-apps/diffutils-2.8.4-r4
sys-apps/ed-0.2-r4
sys-apps/file-4.12
sys-apps/findutils-4.1.20-r1
sys-apps/gawk-3.1.3-r2
sys-apps/grep-2.5.1-r6
sys-apps/groff-1.19.1-r2
sys-apps/hdparm-5.8
sys-apps/hotplug-base-20040401
sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r3
sys-apps/less-382-r2
sys-apps/man-1.5o_p1
sys-apps/man-pages-1.70
sys-apps/miscfiles-1.3-r1
sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.1
sys-apps/net-tools-1.60-r9
sys-apps/portage-2.0.51-r8
sys-apps/procps-3.2.4
sys-apps/psmisc-21.4
sys-apps/sed-4.1.2
sys-apps/shadow-4.0.6
sys-apps/sysvinit-2.85-r1
sys-apps/tcp-wrappers-7.6-r8
sys-apps/which-2.16
sys-devel/autoconf-2.13
sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r6
sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-2
sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6
sys-devel/automake-1.5
sys-devel/automake-1.6.3
sys-devel/automake-1.7.9
sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r2
sys-devel/automake-1.9.3
sys-devel/automake-wrapper-1
sys-devel/bc-1.06-r5
sys-devel/bison-1.875d
sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r5
sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.7-r5
sys-devel/gnuconfig-20040214
sys-devel/m4-1.4.1
sys-devel/make-3.80-r1
sys-devel/patch-2.5.9-r1
sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.35-r1
sys-fs/udev-049
sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1
sys-libs/cracklib-2.7-r10
sys-libs/db-1.85-r2
sys-libs/db-4.2.52_p2
sys-libs/ncurses-5.4-r5
sys-libs/pwdb-0.62
sys-libs/readline-5.0-r1
sys-libs/zlib-1.2.2

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# FAILURES #
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sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20041102
sys-devel/binutils-2.15.94.0.1
sys-devel/gcc-3.4.3-r1
sys-devel/gettext-0.14.1
sys-libs/pam-0.77-r4
net-misc/openssh-3.9_p1
sys-apps/pam-login-3.14
sys-apps/util-linux-2.12i-r1
 - who knows

sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6
dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r1
 - needs to have extra -Dtarget crap passed to it

dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7d-r2
 - runs a lot of crap (like uname) to figure out target

dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1
dev-lang/python-2.3.4
 - python sucks at life

net-misc/rsync-2.6.3
 - just doesnt compile ?

sys-kernel/linux26-headers
 - CTARGET <-> ARCH translation ?

sys-apps/texinfo
 - 4.7 is broken bad, 4.8 should resolve cross-compiling
   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2004-10/msg00008.html

sys-devel/libtool-1.5.x works, 1.3.x uses wrong toolchain ...
  should i really care though ?