Re: [gentoo-user] QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths

[James Wall]

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Kevin McCarthy <signals@g.o> wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 03:25:31PM -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
>> 2011/5/6 Kevin McCarthy <signals@g.o>
>>
>> > On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 01:45:01PM -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Attached to this message are the contents of the afforementioned file,
>> > > thanks for the help!!!
>
> This seems like cause for alarm:
>
>> >>> Unpacking source...
>> >>> Unpacking dialog-1.1-20100428.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428/work
>> tar: dialog-1.1-20100428/aclocal.m4: time stamp 2010-04-28 17:36:28 is 252636716.880100597 s in the future
>
> Something is definitely wrong with your clock.
>
> Then we have this:
>
>> >>> Source configured.
>> >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428/work/dialog-1.1-20100428 ...
>> make
>> make: Warning: File `trace.c' has modification time 2.4e+08 s in the future
>
> Here is the libtool link from the compile phase. It looks correct, but
> notice that it warns you about the clock problems:
>
>> libtool: link: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -o .libs/dialog .libs/dialog.o  -L/var/tmp/portage/dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428/work/dialog-1.1-20100428 /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428/work/dialog-1.1-20100428/.libs/libdialog.so -L/usr/lib -lncursesw -lm
>> make: warning:  Clock skew detected.  Your build may be incomplete.
>> >>> Source compiled.
>> >>> Test phase [not enabled]: dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428
>>
>
> Then in the install phase, you will see that make can't figure out what
> is up-to-date (because the clock is off) so it decides everything needs
> to be rebuilt.
>
>> >>> Install dialog-1.1.20100428 into /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428/image/ category dev-util
> ---8<---SNIP---8<---
>> make: Warning: File `trace.c' has modification time 2.4e+08 s in the future
>> /usr/bin/libtool --tag=CC  --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=i686 -pipe  -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -I/usr/include/ncursesw -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -c trace.c
>
> In the install phase, DESTDIR is set to the PORTAGE_TEMP directory and
> libtool is called with -rpath set to the temp dir. This is what's
> causing the QA warning. The problem is that we aren't supposed to be
> building anything at this point. It is the INSTALL phase after all:
>
>> /usr/bin/libtool --tag=CC  --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -rpath /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428/image//usr/lib -version-info `cut -f1 ./VERSION`   -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -o libdialog.la trace.lo rc.lo calendar.lo fselect.lo timebox.lo formbox.lo guage.lo pause.lo progressbox.lo tailbox.lo mixedform.lo mixedgauge.lo arrows.lo buttons.lo checklist.lo columns.lo dlg_keys.lo editbox.lo inputbox.lo inputstr.lo menubox.lo mouse.lo mousewget.lo msgbox.lo textbox.lo ui_getc.lo util.lo version.lo yesno.lo -L/usr/lib -lncursesw -lm
>
> So, the short of it is that you need to fix your clock. It needs to be
> set reasonably close to the actual time and the timezone needs to be set
> correctly as well. You might also look into net-misc/ntp to set the
> clock from the network.
>
> If your clock is set correctly, there's something horribly wrong and it
> will require additional troubleshooting.
>
> --
> Kevin McCarthy <signals@g.o>
>

What does the outpute of "date" show for your current date? this looks
like your clock/cmos battery is dead. I had one keep me from emerging
anything because the system would go into a loop trying to emeerge
things like glibc.

James Wall