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From: Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Evironment variables breaking ebuilds
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:19:41
Message-Id: 200604291911.29184.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Evironment variables breaking ebuilds by Philip Lawatsch
1 Philip Lawatsch wrote:
2 > In my case I have set the environment variable "PLATFORM" (for my
3 > user). If I now just su to root and then emerge mono the emerge
4 > will fail because mono also seems to make use of $PLATFORM but
5 > does not seem to overwrite it if it is already set.
6 >
7 > -> Is this a bug in the mono ebuild or is this just a fsckup on
8 > my part?
9
10 It's a bug. Try unsetting PLATFORM in the ebuild. When that works,
11 file a bug with a patch.
12
13 > I do think that all environment variables besides the stuff in
14 > the profile and the things in make.conf / make.globals should be
15 > dropped by emerge.
16
17 There's a bug somewhere on this, maybe this one:
18 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56407
19
20 Benno
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