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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] EROOT changing ?
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:05:46
Message-Id: 20101104180516.GR14638@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] EROOT changing ? by Alan Hourihane
1 On 04-11-2010 15:24:47 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 20:38 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
3 > > Hi all,
4 > >
5 > > I'm having a recent issue where has_version is getting EROOT set to ./
6 > > where normally for me it's set to /
7 > >
8 > > When doing the autotools check for LATEST_VERSION it's failing during
9 > > the ebuild, yet calling portageq directly works. And in all other cases
10 > > it works fine too, just this autotools check.
11 > >
12 > > I've traced it back to vartree.py and when it pulls in the value of
13 > > EROOT it's wrong, and fails the search.
14 > >
15 > > Anyone any clues where EROOT could be getting set to ./ instead of just
16 > > staying with / ?
17 >
18 > Any help ?
19
20 well, only puzzledness. I assume you don't have ROOT set. Maybe
21 canonicalise() is being called somewhere, but why that would introduce
22 the . (which is wrong of course) is unclear to me.
23
24
25 --
26 Fabian Groffen
27 Gentoo on a different level

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Re: [gentoo-alt] EROOT changing ? Alan Hourihane <alanh@×××××××××××.uk>