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From: Denis <denis.che@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge coreutils-6.4 says "expr" binary missing
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:48:49
Message-Id: d9a0a6da0703011640h3f609faaw394f2e93308eb6d0@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge coreutils-6.4 says "expr" binary missing by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 > You really need to tell us more about your system. What did you do preceding
2 > this?
3
4 emerge --info gives the following:
5
6 Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4, gcc-3.3.5,
7 glibc-2.3.1-r2,glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 i686)
8 =================================================================
9 System uname: 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 i686 Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU 2.20GHz
10 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.2.8
11 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
12 dev-java/java-config: 0.2.7, 1.2.11
13 dev-lang/python: 2.2.2, 2.3.4-r1
14 dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present]
15 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present]
16 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present]
17 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12, 1.2.17
18 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6, 2.61
19 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.4, 1.10
20 sys-devel/binutils: 2.13.90.0.18, 2.15.92.0.2-r1
21 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.1, 1.3.8-r4
22 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.1-r10, 1.5.22
23 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.19
24 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
25 AUTOCLEAN="no"
26 CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
27 CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
28 CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
29 CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
30 /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
31 /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
32 /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/"
33 CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
34 CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
35 DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
36 FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
37 GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
38 http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
39 MAKEOPTS="-j3"
40 PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
41 PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
42 PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
43
44 SNIP a bunch of "use" flags...
45
46 I know, I haven't updated for a while. I was trying to update
47 Portage, and coreutils was listed as the necessary package to emerge
48 first.
49
50 > What's the output of `emerge -pv coreutils`?
51
52 Calculating dependencies ...done!
53 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.4 -acl +nls (-selinux) -static 0 kB
54
55 > please show the output of either `equery check coreutils` or `qcheck coreutils`.
56
57 BLANK. I ran it, and it doesn't give any output at all.
58
59 Denis
60
61
62
63 > On Thursday 01 March 2007 18:35:54 Denis wrote:
64 > > I was emerging coreutils to update portage, and it failed with the
65 > following:
66 > > >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/coreutils-6.4 to /
67 > >
68 > > --- SNIP md5 messages ---
69 > >
70 > > /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1: /bin/expr: No such file or
71 > > directory * Your expr binary appears to be broken, please fix it.
72 > > * For more info, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/123342
73 > >
74 > > !!! ERROR: sys-apps/coreutils-6.4 failed.
75 > > !!! Function pkg_setup, Line 43, Exitcode 0
76 > > !!! your expr is broke
77 --
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge coreutils-6.4 says "expr" binary missing "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>