Re: [gentoo-user] freepops plays up

[Mick]

On Tuesday 20 May 2008, Andrey Falko wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> > This is probably simple enough to resolve:
> >
> > I updated lua recently to:
> >
> > [D] dev-lang/lua
> >      Installed versions:  5.1.3-r1(08:44:37 05/19/08)
> > (readline -deprecated -static)
> >
> > Meanwhile, I am running freepops-0.2.5.  Since lua was updated freepops
> > keels over with a lookup error for lua:
> > ================================
> >  $ freepopsd -v -s michael.users
> > Tue May 20 11:09:27 2008 freepopsd: INTERNAL: freepops started with
> > loglevel 1 on a little endian machine.
> > Tue May 20 11:09:27 2008 freepopsd: PID: Cannot create pid
> > file "/var/run/freepopsd.pid"
> > freepopsd: symbol lookup error: freepopsd: undefined symbol: luaL_openlib
> > ================================
> >
> > revdep-rebuild does not show anything.  Is it a bug?
>
> You tried re-emerging freepops, right? If it works after you re-emerge
> it, then there is bug with revdep-rebuild.
> You tried it, then you've hit some sort of bug with linking.
>
> So yes, its some sort of bug.

What do you know!  This portage thing is a rather intelligent piece of 
engineering ;-)
========================================
* checking freepops-0.2.5.tar.gz ;-) ...                                 [ 
ok ]
 * This package uses the deprecated functions of lua
 * 
 * ERROR: net-mail/freepops-0.2.5 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called pkg_setup
 *   freepops-0.2.5.ebuild, line   26:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *              die 'please compile dev-lang/lua with USE=deprecated'
 *  The die message:
 *   please compile dev-lang/lua with USE=deprecated
========================================

I'm off to re-emerge lua.

Thanks.
-- 
Regards,
Mick