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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Prefix Bug report: binutils-2.18.50.0.4
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:06:46
Message-Id: 20080222120642.GG865@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] Prefix Bug report: binutils-2.18.50.0.4 by rabbe@bahnhof.se
1 On 21-02-2008 14:43:09 +0100, rabbe@×××××××.se wrote:
2 > > On 21-02-2008 22:25:02 +1100, Matt Michalowski wrote:
3 > >> rabbe@×××××××.se wrote:
4 > >>> [ text clipped ]
5 > >>> However, the ebuild pulls in 15 dependencies and texinfo, which is
6 > >>> number
7 > >>> 11 of the 15, fails to build. The final lines of console output are:
8 > >>>
9 > >>> [ text clipped ]
10 > >>> help2man: can't get `--help' info from ../util/texi2dvi
11 > >>
12 > >> I actually hit the same error when trying to bootstrap on FreeBSD 6.3
13 > >> for the first time the other day, but I thought it was probably just
14 > >> me and I was going to try again from scratch.
15 > >
16 > > Fabian wrote:
17 > > You should emerge "<bash-3.2_p33" to get around this.
18 > >
19 > I put an entry into etc/portage/package.mask denying 3.2_p33 and
20 > higher. It helped!
21 >
22 > I then ran into a problem with coreutils, where the ebuild wants
23 > to unpack coreutils-6.10.tar.lzma. So I thought, better emerge the
24 > "lzma" utility first. Inserting "emerge --oneshot lzma" just before
25 > emerging coreutils did not solve it though; lzma itself is emerged
26 > nicely (no depenencies pulled in). But it does not make the tar.lzma
27 > file possible to unpack, here is what goes in the console log:
28
29 Please follow the Solaris/Mac OS X guides.
30
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32 Fabian Groffen
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