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From: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Re: sparc mysql-5.5.20
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:04:02
Message-Id: CAMxqorXWvep+e1GkS5Jh2ftEZZwSTFLBWRzDwJ0iL5SsBmxvpg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-alt] Re: sparc mysql-5.5.20 by Scott Spyrison
1 On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Scott Spyrison <spyrison@××××××××.edu> wrote:
2 > Been a while since I used Gentoo... and I am new to Gentoo Prefix.
3 >
4 > I was in the Testing branch by default for some reason, because I had not
5 > configured make.conf otherwise.
6 >
7 > Long story short, explicitly configuring for the stable branch results in a
8 > clean build of mysql-5.1.61 (sparc)
9
10 There is no concept of "stable" and "testing" in Gentoo Prefix. It is
11 all at the same visibility level.
12 -Jeremy
13
14 >
15 > Now, on to openldap...
16 >
17 >
18 >
19 > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Scott Spyrison <spyrison@××××××××.edu>
20 > wrote:
21 >>
22 >> Hello,
23 >>
24 >> I had a successful emerge system on sparc following the excellent
25 >> guide on bootstrapping Solaris.  I ran into a recently reported issue
26 >> with debianutils not being on the mirors, but worked through it based
27 >> on the information in the issue report.  My next step was to take a
28 >> backup of course, and then I started thinking about emerging packages.
29 >>
30 >> The first one I tried was mysql-5.5.20 (with minimal).  I encountered
31 >> two issues, only one of which I was able to work-around.
32 >>
33 >> 1) emerge failed with:
34 >>
35 >> Can't create output directory for
36 >>
37 >> ${EPREFIX}/var/tmp/portage/dev-db/mysql-5.5.20/work/mysql-5.5.20_build/sql/share/ukrainian
38 >>
39 >> The root cause of this was not anything ukrainian, but the fact that
40 >>
41 >> ${EPREFIX}/var/tmp/portage/dev-db/mysql-5.5.20/work/mysql-5.5.20_build/sql/share
42 >> did not exist.  I created it manually during the emerge from a
43 >> different shell (not good, I know, just testing) and then I had a
44 >> successful build.  I see output indicating [100%] Buiilt target
45 >> symlink_libmysqlclient_r.so Install the project...
46 >>
47 >> 2) emerge then fails during install, and with --debug I can see:
48 >>
49 >> + newins ${EPREFIX}/var/tmp/portage/dev-db/mysql-5.5.20/temp/my.cnf.ok
50 >> my.cnf
51 >> -------------------------------------------------------
52 >> You should not use ${EPREFIX} with helpers.
53 >>  --> ${EPREFIX}/etc/mysql
54 >> -------------------------------------------------------
55 >>  * ERROR: dev-db/mysql-5.5.20 failed (install phase):
56 >>  *   newins failed
57 >>
58 >> I intend to debug further, and I need to check more carefully on
59 >> Buzilla, but initially I did not see any reports on this.  Any
60 >> suggestions, or indication that this is a localized problem as opposed
61 >> to a bug?
62 >>
63 >> Thanks,
64 >> Scott
65 >
66 >

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