Re: [gentoo-dev] environment variable GZIP cause pilot-link-0.9.6.ebuild (kde) to fail ?

[Mikael Hallendal]

tis 2002-01-15 klockan 22.48 skrev Michael Tartsch:
> Hi
>
> I had some trouble with kde dependance pilot-link.
> The environment variable GZIP=-9 cause the ebuild to fail.

Hi!

Can you please add this to the bugzilla?

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

 
> ---original problem----------------------------------------------
> While building kde the dependency pilot-link-0.9.6 failed.
> Without sandbox the following output was generated:
>
> ...
> mkdir /var/tmp/portage/pilot-link-0.9.6-r3/image/usr/share/man/man1
> mkdir /var/tmp/portage/pilot-link-0.9.6-r3/image/usr/share/man/man7
> for m in ./man/*.1; do \
>         /bin/sh ./libtool /bin/install -c -m 644 $m /var/tmp/portage/pilot-link-0.9.6-r3/image//usr/share/man/man1/`basename $m`; \
>         /bin/cat $m | /bin/gzip > /var/tmp/portage/pilot-link-0.9.6-r3/image//usr/share/man/man1/`basename $m`.gz; \
> done
> /bin/install -c -m 644 ./man/dlpsh.1 /var/tmp/portage/pilot-link-0.9.6-r3/image//usr/share/man/man1/dlpsh.1
> /bin/install -c -m 644 ./man/ietf2datebook.1 /var/tmp/portage/pilot-link-0.9.6-r3/image//usr/share/man/man1/ietf2datebook.1
> /bin/sh: /bin/gzip: No such file or directory
> ...
>
> After ebuild the /bin/gzip was missing and a file /bin/gzip.gz exists.
> ---analyze----------------------------------------------
> After a lot of testing and reading I found out what has happened.
>
> -  I have an environment variable for GZIP with defailt options:
>    GZIP=-9
> -  the Makefile of pilot-link contains the following segments:
>    ...
>    GZIP            = /bin/gzip
>    ...
>    for m in ${srcdir}/man/*.1; do \
>        $(INSTALL_DATA) $$m $(mandir1)/`basename $$m`; \
>        $(CAT) $$m | $(GZIP) > $(mandir1)/`basename $$m`.gz; \
>    done
>    If no environment variable is missing then the make variable seems
>    to be treated as local.
>    If an evironment variable GZIP exists then it is overwritten
>    and forewarded to the sub-shell.
>
> -  The following command was called with
>    environment GZIP=/bin/gzip
>    cat somefile.1 | /bin/gzip > somedir/somefile.1.gz
>    gzip internally merges the $GZIP with the commandline and executes
>    "/bin/gzip /bin/gzip"
>    uups
>
> ---Question-------------------------------------------------------------
>
> What's wrong with my GZIP="-9" ?
>
>
>
>
> bye
>     Michael Tartsch <mt@×××××.de>
>
>
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Mikael Hallendal
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden