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From: Nimish Pachapurkar <npac@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-osx@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-osx] PREFIX on Cygwin
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:15:57
Message-Id: 448F0EA3.8070405@spikesource.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-osx] PREFIX on Cygwin by Grobian
1 Grobian wrote:
2 > On 13-06-2006 11:47:35 -0700, Nimish Pachapurkar wrote:
3 >> Thanks for offering help. Here are some of my problems:
4 >>
5 >> 1. First of all under cygwin, any path that has two slashes at the
6 >> beginning is treated as a network path. So the seemingly harmless
7 >> "root + portage_consts.EPREFIX" thingy fails with error message "No
8 >> such hostname or network path: //opt/cyg-prefix". I worked around that
9 >> by changing root from "/" to "/cygdrive/c/cygwin_root".
10 >
11 > I think that workaround is reasonable. However double slashes should
12 > have been tackled already sometime... ? Anyone know anything about
13 > that?
14 >
15 >> 2. Secondly, emerge is not able to generate dependency cache for the
16 >> system. I have two overlays in my tree and all I can see under
17 >> var/cache/edb is those two empty directories (plus the normal base
18 >> portage one). When I run emerge with --debug and --regen options, I
19 >> get this error for each ebuild file in the tree:
20 >> aug_get(): (0) Error in sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.12-r4.ebuild (1)
21 >> Check for syntax error or corruption in the ebuild
22 >
23 > What trees do you use? I'm not entirely sure, but I think this error
24 > can mean that you don't have EAPI="prefix" in your ebuild. But I may
25 > be very well mistaken. I've seen the error myself before, that's for
26 > sure.
27 >
28
29 The ebuild tree is one I have been building on Linux for quiet some time
30 now. And it does have EAPI set to prefix for all ebuilds (at lease the
31 ones that are supposed to build).
32
33 - Nimish
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