Re: [gentoo-alt] sparc mysql-5.5.20

[Fabian Groffen]

Hi Scott,

On 13-02-2012 13:55:51 -0600, Scott Spyrison wrote:
> I had a successful emerge system on sparc following the excellent
> guide on bootstrapping Solaris.  I ran into a recently reported issue
> with debianutils not being on the mirors, but worked through it based
> on the information in the issue report.  My next step was to take a
> backup of course, and then I started thinking about emerging packages.

Ok, good to hear!

> The first one I tried was mysql-5.5.20 (with minimal).  I encountered
> two issues, only one of which I was able to work-around.
>
> 1) emerge failed with:
>
> Can't create output directory for
> ${EPREFIX}/var/tmp/portage/dev-db/mysql-5.5.20/work/mysql-5.5.20_build/sql/share/ukrainian

Hmmm, odd.

> The root cause of this was not anything ukrainian, but the fact that
> ${EPREFIX}/var/tmp/portage/dev-db/mysql-5.5.20/work/mysql-5.5.20_build/sql/share
> did not exist.  I created it manually during the emerge from a
> different shell (not good, I know, just testing) and then I had a
> successful build.  I see output indicating [100%] Buiilt target
> symlink_libmysqlclient_r.so Install the project...
>
> 2) emerge then fails during install, and with --debug I can see:
>
> + newins ${EPREFIX}/var/tmp/portage/dev-db/mysql-5.5.20/temp/my.cnf.ok my.cnf
> -------------------------------------------------------
> You should not use ${EPREFIX} with helpers.
>   --> ${EPREFIX}/etc/mysql
> -------------------------------------------------------
>  * ERROR: dev-db/mysql-5.5.20 failed (install phase):
>  *   newins failed

This is a wrong ebuild/eclass.  So don't waste your time on it.  I'll
see if I can fix it now.  Thanks.


-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level