On 31-08-2010 02:08:18 +0200, Al wrote:
> Before turning back to big gcc I wanted to emerge all other stuff from
> the solaris howto. Most is done.
> 
> 1.) gawk:
> 
> Symptom: While emerge --oneshot gawk emerge dies:
> 
> i686-pc-cygwin-gcc -L/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/lib
> -R/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/lib -L/home/prefix/gentoo/lib
> -R/home/prefix/gentoo/lib -o filefuncs.so.0.0.1 -shared -Wl,-soname
> -Wl,filefuncs.so.0 filefuncs.o
> filefuncs.o:filefuncs.c:(.text+0x1e): undefined reference to `_make_builtin'
> [... lots of this ... ]
> filefuncs.o:filefuncs.c:(.text+0x10f1): undefined reference to `_update_ERRNO'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [filefuncs.so.0.0.1] Error 1
> 
> Reason: unknown

shouldn't try to build the lib on cygwin, I think.

> 2.) coreutils: breaks following emergings
> 
> Symptom: After emerging of coreutils succeeding emergings break. The
> files "config.status" get corrupted during generation.
> 
> This is reproducable. Tested with wget. config.status is truncated at
> top and out of order at bottom. The file ws broken in to tests in
> exactly the same way.
> 
> Reason: unknown
> 
> Which tool does configure use that could do this damage?
> Why are parts in wrong order? Multi processes?

hmmm, weird.

> The Cygwin coreutils work fine and have the same version. So there is
> a solution. Unfortunatly the Cygwin patch for coreutils has a few
> thousend lines without doc. Next thing I could try, is to blindly
> apply it.

see if it applies indeed, if not then they do something else first.


-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level