Re: [gentoo-user] re: pcre install failure

[Jude DaShiell]

On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, Ashley Dixon wrote:

> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 23:10:45
> From: Ashley Dixon <ash@××××××××××.uk>
> Reply-To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: pcre install failure
>
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 10:11:23PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > Here is my /etc/portage/make.conf if it will help on the use variable.
> > I'm sending the whole file since it may have other errors.
>
> Looks fine to me, aside from this potentially problematic line:
>
> > MAKEOPTS="-j2"
>
> I've had some very  obscure  and  hard-to-diagnose  errors  arise  due  to  this
> parallelism option.  Try changing it to "-j1" and build again.   If  that  still
> does not work, you  might  have  to  provide  the  build  information  of  every
> dependency of PCRE (`libedit` is irrelevant for your case):
>
>         $ emerge --info app-arch/bzip2 sys-libs/zlib \
>         > sys-libs/readline dev-util/pkgconfig
>
> I'd also like to see the explicit  packages  pulled  in  by  PCRE,  without  the
> clutter of your world set.  I could try and infer it from the indentation of the
> dependency graph you already provided, but I'm down six shots of vodka  and  I'd
> rather not make a fool of myself.  This should be the output  of  the  following
> emerge command:
>
>         $ emerge -tvp libpcre
>
>         These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
>
>         Calculating dependencies... done!
>         [ebuild   R    ] dev-libs/libpcre-8.44:3::gentoo  USE="bzip2 cxx jit readline recursion-limit (split-usr) (unicode) zlib -libedit -pcre16 -pcre32 -static-libs" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" 0 KiB
>
>

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Hi Ashley,

Changing -j2 to -j1 in /etc/portage/make.conf is doing the trick!  The
amd64 southbridge system I use was built in 2007 so I maybe also ought to
have used noapic in my boot parameters too since this system is old enough
it owes nobody a thing.