Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild error

[Dan Armak]

On Wednesday 11 July 2001 14:07, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what are the reasons for this error to come :
>
> ebuild fping-2.4b1.ebuild digest
> !!! Name error in 2.4b1
> !!! Error: PF is null; exiting.
>
>
> the ebuild is as follows :
>
> P=fping-2.4b1.tar.gz
> S=${WORKDIR}/fping-2.4b1
> DESCRIPTION="A utility to ping multiple hosts at once"
> SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/admin/mon/${P}.tar.gz"
> HOMEPAGE="http://www.stanford.edu/~schemers/docs/fping/fping.html"
>
> src_unpack() {
>   unpack ${A}
>     cp ${FILESDIR}/fping.c ${S}
>     }
>
>     src_compile() {
>
>         cd ${S}
>             try ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=${CHOST}
>                 try make
>
>                 }
>
>                 src_install () {
>
>                     cd ${S}
>                         dobin fping
>                             doman fping.8
>                                 dodoc COPYING ChangeLog README
>
>                                 }
>
>
> regards,
>
> pm
>
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There are rules for naming ebuilds. Specifically, 2.4b1 isn't acceptable. Use 
1.4_beta1 instead and it'll work. The reasons and rules for this are in one 
of the tutorials somewhere :-)

HTH
Dan