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From: Grobian <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-osx@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-osx] PREFIX on Cygwin
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:58:28
Message-Id: 20060613185634.GB24221@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-osx] PREFIX on Cygwin by Nimish Pachapurkar
1 On 13-06-2006 11:47:35 -0700, Nimish Pachapurkar wrote:
2 > Thanks for offering help. Here are some of my problems:
3 >
4 > 1. First of all under cygwin, any path that has two slashes at the
5 > beginning is treated as a network path. So the seemingly harmless
6 > "root + portage_consts.EPREFIX" thingy fails with error message "No
7 > such hostname or network path: //opt/cyg-prefix". I worked around that
8 > by changing root from "/" to "/cygdrive/c/cygwin_root".
9
10 I think that workaround is reasonable. However double slashes should
11 have been tackled already sometime... ? Anyone know anything about
12 that?
13
14 > 2. Secondly, emerge is not able to generate dependency cache for the
15 > system. I have two overlays in my tree and all I can see under
16 > var/cache/edb is those two empty directories (plus the normal base
17 > portage one). When I run emerge with --debug and --regen options, I
18 > get this error for each ebuild file in the tree:
19 > aug_get(): (0) Error in sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.12-r4.ebuild (1)
20 > Check for syntax error or corruption in the ebuild
21
22 What trees do you use? I'm not entirely sure, but I think this error
23 can mean that you don't have EAPI="prefix" in your ebuild. But I may
24 be very well mistaken. I've seen the error myself before, that's for
25 sure.
26
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28 Fabian Groffen
29 Gentoo for Mac OS X Project
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