[gentoo-user] Unmerge failure

[David Corbin]

I'm getting this failure on numerous ebuilds during the umerge.   I'm at a 
loss to explain it. Any ideas?

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/tmp/binpkgs/dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.27/temp/environment: line 265: syntax error 
near unexpected token `('
/tmp/binpkgs/dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.27/temp/environment: line 265: `        
eval "$1() { ${ECLASS}_$1 "\$@" ; }" >/dev/null;'
+ exit 1
 *
 * ERROR: dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.27 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line 1641:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *      preprocess_ebuild_env || \
 *              die "error processing environment"
 *  The die message:
 *   error processing environment
 *
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if 
relevant.
 * A complete build log is located 
at '/var/log/portage/dev-libs:libxml2-2.6.27:20080223-145805.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located 
at '/tmp/binpkgs/dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.27/temp/environment'.
 *
!!! FAILED prerm: 1
 * The 'prerm' phase of the 'dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.27' package has failed
 * with exit value 1. The problem occurred while executing the ebuild
 * located at '/var/db/pkg/dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.27/libxml2-2.6.27.ebuild'.
 * If necessary, manually remove the ebuild in order to skip the execution
 * of removal phases.

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David Corbin

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