Re: [gentoo-user] emerge portage error

[Barry Jibb]

On 16/05/10 14:44, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sunday 16 May 2010 15:10:16 Simon wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please help me to get rid of this error while emerging portage:
>> # emerge portage
>>
> [snip]
>
> Yea gods, the youth of today. In my day, when I was a little whipper-snapper,
> we actually read the ebuild. Why because? Because there was no-one else around
> to do our looking by proxy for us!
>
> So, in the interest of decomming the proxy in my head, herewith the magic
> incantations to make your problem go "Poof!" and disappear:
>
> Firstly, you have tools to help. equery, euse, and many more. Learn how to use
> them, and use them.
>
> Secondly, read the ebuild. portage does what the ebuild says so the master
> reference to figure out why portage wants to do something is in the ebuild (or
> eclasses that it inherits).
>
>
>>    * "bsddb" module is out-of-date and no longer maintained inside
>> dev-lang/python. It has
>>    * been additionally removed in Python 3. You should use external,
>> still maintained "bsddb3"
>>    * module provided by dev-python/bsddb3 which supports both Python 2
>> and Python 3.
>>    *
>>    * ERROR: dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r4 failed.
>>    * Call stack:
>>    *                ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called pkg_setup
>>    *   python-2.5.4-r4.ebuild, line   64:  Called built_with_use
>> 'pkg_setup' 'pkg_setup'
>>    *            eutils.eclass, line 1862:  Called die
>>    * The specific snippet of code:
>>    *                                      die)   die "$PKG does not
>> actually support the $1 USE flag!";;
>>    *  The die message:
>>    *   sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2 does not actually support the libffi USE flag!
>>
>  From the ebuild:
> pkg_setup() {
>          if use berkdb; then
>                  ewarn "\"bsddb\" module is out-of-date and no longer
> maintained inside dev-lang/python. It has"
>                  ewarn "been additionally removed in Python 3. You should use
> external, still maintained \"bsddb3\""
>                  ewarn "module provided by dev-python/bsddb3 which supports
> both Python 2 and Python 3."
>          fi
>
>          if built_with_use sys-devel/gcc libffi; then
>                  die "Reinstall sys-devel/gcc with \"libffi\" USE flag
> disabled"
>          fi
> }
>
>
> So, to get rid of the bsddb ewarn, you need to remove that "berkdb" from USE.
>
> And the build failure is staring you right there in the face. As we say here
> at the tip of Africa, "As dit 'n slang was, het dit jou gepik" [If it were a
> snake, it would have already bitten you].
>
>
> You have "USE=libffi" which doesn't work. Remove it, sync the tree, rebuild
> world. (your portage and gcc versions have updates available, even on stable)
>
>
>
>
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