Re: [gentoo-user] Is there rpcgen in Gentoo and how to compile dev-perl/Ace?

[Anton Molyboha]

Thanks a lot Andreas!

Emerging net-libs/prcsvc-proto did solve the problem, and I was eventually
able to compile dev-perl/Ace.

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o>
wrote:

> Am Freitag, 10. November 2017, 01:50:04 CET schrieb Anton Molyboha:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am trying to emerge dev-perl/Ace-1.920.0-r2 on my Gentoo Prefix on
> MacOS
> > and it fails trying to run "rpcgen -I -K -1 rpcace.x" and not finding
> > rpcgen (or rather finding the XCode version of it which I don't want)
> >
>
> rpcgen is part of
> 1) sys-libs/glibc[rpc] (not useful for you)
> 2) net-libs/rpcsvc-proto
>
> >
> > TL;DR: I have two questions:
> > 1) Does anybody know of a Gentoo package which provides the tool "rpcgen"
> > 2) Does anybody know how dev-perl/Ace is meant to be compiled and whether
> > the dependence on rpcgen is necessary.
> >
>
> I'll have a look later. Best if you file a bug with all the info that you
> sent
> to the list, then it won't be forgotten.
>

I have filed https://bugs.gentoo.org/637114 with all the info and marked it
as a blocker for 381391 "(glibc-rpc) - [TRACKER] Packages failing to build
with no rpc in sys-libs/glibc"

>
> (I suppose dev-perl/Ace will also break with sys-libs/glibc-2.26, where the
> built-in rpc support is going away, so this doesnt just affect your
> prefix. :)
>
> --
> Andreas K. Hüttel
> dilfridge@g.o
> Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)
>
> Anton