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From: Dan Armak <ermak@×××××××××××××.il>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Problems compiling gv
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 07:08:30
Message-Id: 01080816090204.00611@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Problems compiling gv by Dan Armak
1 On Wednesday 08 August 2001 16:06, you wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 08 August 2001 15:31, you wrote:
3 > > On Wednesday 08 August 2001 17:32, you wrote:
4 > > > Dan Armak escreveu (Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:45:57AM +0300):
5 > > > > OK, I've changed the gv ebuild, though it's rather a guess, but it's
6 > > > > the only thing I can think of.
7 > > > > If that doesn't help after rsync, could you try to extract and
8 > > > > install the gv sources yourself, and see if that works?
9 > > > > A final question: after the make error, emerge shuold say it failed
10 > > > > to run something - what's that something? I want to know if it failed
11 > > > > to compile or to install.
12 > > >
13 > > > How do I do a clean rsync?
14 > >
15 > > There's no such thing. Did I mention such a thing?
16 > >
17 > > > bash-2.04# emerge --clean rsync
18 > > > !!! Error: --clean is an invalid option.
19 > > >
20 > > > bash-2.04# emerge rsync clean
21 > > > !!! Error: clean does not exist or is an invalid command-line
22 > > > option.
23 > > >
24 > > > Ok, I did a simple emerge rsync. Same error when emerging gv:
25 > > >
26 > > > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `gv.man', needed by `gv._man'.
27 > > > Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory
28 > > > `/usr/portage/tmp/portage/gv-3.5.8/work/gv-3.5.8/source' make: ***
29 > > > [all] Error 2
30 > > >
31 > > > !!! ERROR: the make command did not complete successfully.
32 > > > !!! ("make")
33 > > > !!! Since this is a critical task, ebuild will be stopped.
34 > > >
35 > > > !!! emerge aborting on /usr/portage/app-text/gv/gv-3.5.8.ebuild .
36 > > >
37 > > > I downloaded the sources with ebuild gv fetch, and got the same error
38 > > > when compiling.
39 > >
40 > > I didn't really expect the problem to be in the ebuild anyway.
41 > > This all seems very strange, and I can't do much because I can't recreate
42 > > the problem. If you could send me the entire compile output it might
43 > > help, and then again it might not. I just don't know what to say :-(
44 > >
45 > > One thing I *can* do is simply disable the makefile's operation on the
46 > > manpage. The manpage is actually distibuted pre-compiled (not latex
47 > > source or something), so all the makefile does is add a .1 extension and
48 > > install it. So I'll do that now. Wait a couple of hours after this post,
49 > > emerge rsync and try again.
50 >
51 > I'm committing to cvs now and it *should* do it. Make sure emerge rsync
52 > updates the gv ebuild, I don't know how much time it may take for the new
53 > version to be available via rsync.
54 >
55 > In case even this fails, I think there's a slightly newer version of gv and
56 > I'm going to make an ebuild for that now.
57 Turns out there isn't a newer version - only rumours. Oh well. But my last
58 cvs update might work :-)

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