[gentoo-alt] Re: hp-ux 11.23 ia64 bash issues(?)

[Jeremy Olexa]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Jeremy Olexa<darkside@g.o> wrote:
> Hello,
> It looks like the hp-ux's profile.bashrc is somewhat broken. I last
> saw this issue in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199868#c5
>
> Every ebuild fails to merge with output like this:
>
>>>> Emerging (1 of 66) sys-devel/flex-2.5.35
> /usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so: Unsatisfied data symbol 'BC' in load module
> '/home/jolexa/portage/hpia64-11.23/bin/bash'.
> /usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so: Unsatisfied data symbol 'PC' in load module
> '/home/jolexa/portage/hpia64-11.23/bin/bash'.
> /usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so: Unsatisfied data symbol 'UP' in load module
> '/home/jolexa/portage/hpia64-11.23/bin/bash'.
> /usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so: Unsatisfied data symbol 'BC' in load module
> '/home/jolexa/portage/hpia64-11.23/bin/bash'.
> /usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so: Unsatisfied data symbol 'PC' in load module
> '/home/jolexa/portage/hpia64-11.23/bin/bash'.
> /usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so: Unsatisfied data symbol 'UP' in load module
> '/home/jolexa/portage/hpia64-11.23/bin/bash'.
>  * flex-2.5.35.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...                   [ ok ]
>  * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ...                                     [ ok ]
>  * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ...                                    [ ok ]
>  * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...                                   [ ok ]
> /usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so: Unsatisfied data symbol 'BC' in load module
> '/home/jolexa/portage/hpia64-11.23/bin/bash'.
> /usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so: Unsatisfied data symbol 'PC' in load module
> '/home/jolexa/portage/hpia64-11.23/bin/bash'.
> /usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so: Unsatisfied data symbol 'UP' in load module
> '/home/jolexa/portage/hpia64-11.23/bin/bash'.
>
>>>> Failed to emerge sys-devel/flex-2.5.35
>
> Any help? (haubi? ;)
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremy
>

Ah, hate to reply to myself. But we fixed this. In my case, bash was
improperly linked to the system libcurses.so. It was fixed by:
%% cd $EPREFIX/lib
%% ln -s libncurses.so libcurses.so
%% emerge bash
Here, bash was now linked against the EPREFIX libncurses.so and all is well.

-Jeremy