Re: [gentoo-alt] [prefix]Starting over with svn prefix-launcher on AIX

[Greg Trigg]

Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 29-06-2008 17:27:55 -0500, Greg Trigg wrote:
>>  * QA Notice: Excessive files found in the / partition
>>  *
>> /home/greg/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2/image/home/greg/gentoo/lib/libcurses.a
>>
>>  * ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2 failed:
>>  *   static archives (*.a) and libtool library files (*.la) do not
>
>> This is starting to really annoy me.
>
> Right you are.  Personally I'm not happy at all with this.  You could
> consider yourself to be a too early adoptor.  Anyway, I think this is
> haubi's "dynamic libraries" stuff and a Portage version that is not
> expecting that (.a files being "dynamic" instead of static).  We really
> need haubi here so I can properly adapt Portage for that in the correct
> way, assuming I'm not mistaken at this point.
>
> That said, I'm sorry that you have to hit so many problems.  The AIX
> port simply isn't ready yet, and our manpower is limited.  If you want
> to just continue, you could try to apply the attached patch to
> $EPREFIX/usr/lib/portage/bin/misc-functions.sh.  That's the best I can
> do for you now, sorry!
>

Well, I just killed my misc-functions.sh file.  It's an empty file now. 
  I guess I should have asked how to patch instead of trying to figure 
it out from the man page.  I don't suppose I could get a copy of what's 
in that file?


Greg Trigg
Jacksonville, AR



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