Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Bash failed. Are errors normal?
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:15:04
Message-Id: 20100820111741.GD23491@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] Bash failed. Are errors normal? by Elmar Hinz
1 On 20-08-2010 13:10:17 +0200, Elmar Hinz wrote:
2 > >
3 > > IIRC, you have to emerge ncurses before bash (either explicitly, or
4 > > implicitly)
5 > >
6 >
7 > Which maybe means, that the solaris documentation requires an update.
8
9 In this case, not really, since Solaris has curses available. Your
10 system apparently doesn't. Maybe a --nodeps ncurses will work in your
11 case. Otherwise the approach you chose was the best workaround for your
12 system.
13
14 > Does emerge return an error value so that I can check for it in my
15 > scripts? Well sure it does.
16
17 Indeed, yes it does.
18
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20 --
21 Fabian Groffen
22 Gentoo on a different level

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Re: [gentoo-alt] Bash failed. Are errors normal? Elmar Hinz <oss.elmar@××××××××××.com>