Grobian wrote:
> On 13-06-2006 11:47:35 -0700, Nimish Pachapurkar wrote:
>> Thanks for offering help. Here are some of my problems:
>>
>> 1. First of all under cygwin, any path that has two slashes at the
>> beginning is treated as a network path. So the seemingly harmless
>> "root + portage_consts.EPREFIX" thingy fails with error message "No
>> such hostname or network path: //opt/cyg-prefix". I worked around that
>> by changing root from "/" to "/cygdrive/c/cygwin_root".
> 
> I think that workaround is reasonable.  However double slashes should
> have been tackled already sometime... ?  Anyone know anything about
> that?
> 
>> 2. Secondly, emerge is not able to generate dependency cache for the
>> system. I have two overlays in my tree and all I can see under
>> var/cache/edb is those two empty directories (plus the normal base
>> portage one). When I run emerge with --debug and --regen options, I
>> get this error for each ebuild file in the tree:
>> aug_get(): (0) Error in sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.12-r4.ebuild (1)
>>                Check for syntax error or corruption in the ebuild
> 
> What trees do you use?  I'm not entirely sure, but I think this error
> can mean that you don't have EAPI="prefix" in your ebuild.  But I may
> be very well mistaken.  I've seen the error myself before, that's for
> sure.
> 

The ebuild tree is one I have been building on Linux for quiet some time 
now. And it does have EAPI set to prefix for all ebuilds (at lease the 
ones that are supposed to build).

- Nimish
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