Re: [gentoo-alt] Re: findutils emerge failed

[Fabian Groffen]

On 21-04-2008 18:12:43 +0800, Qiangning Hong wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Qiangning Hong <hongqn@×××××.com> wrote:
> >  It is because the dblocation.texi file is not generated in the compile
> >  stage.  If I comment out the following lines in
> >  findutils-4.4.0.ebuild:
> >
> >         # Don't build or install locate because it conflicts with slocate,
> >         # which is a secure version of locate.  See bug 18729
> >         sed -i '/^SUBDIRS/s/locate//' Makefile.in
> >
> >  it works.  So I think there must be other things should be sed'ed out
> >  beside the 'locate' string.
>
> After a bit more work, I found out that if I comment out the two
> "touch" lines in the ebuild, it works too even if I leave the sed line
> uncommented.  As the irix & interix patches and the touch lines are
> not in the ebuild of main portage, I think this bug is specific to
> gentoo prefix portage?

Hmmm, weird.  I haven't encountered this myself.  Have you tried
commenting out the interix patch + touches to see if that works?  (IIRC
the irix patch only addresses some compilation issue in C sources)

Please comment on bug
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220489

Thanks


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Fabian Groffen
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