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From: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fumblefingers corrupts an ebuild, plea for help
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:17:54
Message-Id: 9acccfe50510151007g1fa39414kb02e14ff97f3fa3b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Fumblefingers corrupts an ebuild, plea for help by Holly Bostick
1 On 10/15/05, Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl> wrote:
2 >
3 > Kevin O'Gorman schreef:
4 > > I thought I was just looking, but after closing the editor my emerges
5 > are
6 > > complaining about a corrupted ebuild of xchat. Specifically,
7 > >
8 > >
9 > >>calculating world dependencies -/usr/portage/net-irc/xchat/xchat-
10 > >
11 > > 2.4.5.ebuild: line 24: syntax error near unexpected token `>'
12 > >
13 > >>/usr/portage/net-irc/xchat/xchat-2.4.5.ebuild: line 24: ` !xchatnogtk? (
14 > >>=x11-libs/gtk+-2.0.3 )'
15 >
16 >
17 > OK, here's line 23-29 of my ebuild:
18 >
19 > (piped to prevent Thunderbird freaking out; ignore the first "|" symbol)
20 >
21 > |RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/glib-2.0.3
22 > | !xchatnogtk? ( >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.0.3 )
23 > | ssl? ( >=dev-libs/openssl-0.9.6d )
24 > | perl? ( >=dev-lang/perl-5.6.1 )
25 > | python? ( >=dev-lang/python-2.2 )
26 > | tcltk? ( dev-lang/tcl )
27 > | !net-irc/xchat-gnome"
28 >
29 >
30 > Happens with editors; sometimes you get changed spacing or line wrap,
31 > and it gets saved for some reason.
32 >
33 > Hope this helps,
34 > Holly
35
36
37 I put that in, but it made no difference (according to both diff and
38 emerge). So it must be something
39 else. Is there a way to force a fresh copy?
40
41 ++ kevin
42
43
44 --
45 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Fumblefingers corrupts an ebuild, plea for help Michael Kjorling <michael@××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Fumblefingers corrupts an ebuild, plea for help Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>