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From: Greg <trigggl@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [prefix]Starting over with svn prefix-launcher on AIX
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:43:37
Message-Id: 4868FF24.3010700@yahoo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] [prefix]Starting over with svn prefix-launcher on AIX by Fabian Groffen
1 Fabian Groffen wrote:
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3 >On 29-06-2008 17:27:55 -0500, Greg Trigg wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >> * QA Notice: Excessive files found in the / partition
7 >> *
8 >>/home/greg/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2/image/home/greg/gentoo/lib/libcurses.a
9 >>
10 >> * ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2 failed:
11 >> * static archives (*.a) and libtool library files (*.la) do not
12 >>
13 >>
14 >Right you are. Personally I'm not happy at all with this. You could
15 >consider yourself to be a too early adoptor. Anyway, I think this is
16 >haubi's "dynamic libraries" stuff and a Portage version that is not
17 >expecting that (.a files being "dynamic" instead of static). We really
18 >need haubi here so I can properly adapt Portage for that in the correct
19 >way, assuming I'm not mistaken at this point.
20 >
21 >
22 I guess I could call myself the AIX tester.
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24 >That said, I'm sorry that you have to hit so many problems. The AIX
25 >port simply isn't ready yet, and our manpower is limited. If you want
26 >to just continue, you could try to apply the attached patch to
27 >$EPREFIX/usr/lib/portage/bin/misc-functions.sh. That's the best I can
28 >do for you now, sorry!
29 >
30 >
31 I installed this patch and now instead of failing it just locks up. I
32 think python is failing. It probably goes back to the 'as' command not
33 working when python was compiling. I may have to look into installing a
34 working assembler.
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39 Greg Trigg
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41 Jacksonville, AR
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