Re: [gentoo-alt] Bash failed. Are errors normal?

[Michael Yang]

>
> I have my installer script ready so far, but it still does not go to
> the end. The next problem I run into is this thingy with pax-utils
> complaining about shebangs.
>

I also got errors with shebangs during bootstrap, and it didn't used to
happen.  Very frustrating.  The problem was that /bin/bash was picked up
instead of prefix bash in
 $EPREFIX/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild-helpers/doman.  Altering the file such
that the first line read #!$EPREFIX/bin/bash  ($EPREFIX replaced with the
absolute path to PREFIX install) fixed this.

I too have found myself picking through the Sun, MacOS, and FreeBSD
instructions but they quickly become outdated and require a lot of
workarounds.  The same procedure that works on one architecture will often
break within a month or so when new portage & gentoo features come into
effect (e.g. the shebang error, -protect-owned in portage-2.2), which makes
it even harder for beginners to get through a bootstrap (like Al)

Has anyone ever considered setting up an automated build system (& waterfall
report) similar to google's chrome dev that runs a working bootstrap script
on different architectures each evening?  It would facilitate the entire
process for beginners.