Re: [gentoo-user] problems trying to maintain inn for my own use

[Jack]

On 6/13/19 5:47 AM, John Covici wrote:
> Hi.  I use inn to fetch/post usenet news.  I know its no longer in the
> tree, but I would like to keep it going.  The last version in the tree
> 2.5.5-r1 no longer configures, so I wrote an ebuild similar to the
> ones that used to be there which I copied to my local ebuilds for
> 2.6.3.  This configures and compiles fine, but gets linking errors
> where it cannot find symbol HISTLOOKUP.

You need to track down where HISTLOOKUP should be coming from, and then 
why in isn't finding it, but didn't miss it at configure/compile.  Do 
"ldd /path/to/inn" to see if there is a library it can't find.  If it 
finds everything, then perhaps it needs a newer version of whichever 
dependency includes (or is supposed to include) that symbol.

You can also compare that ldd output to "ldd 
/path/to/inn/from/tarball".  If there is any difference, then perhaps 
your ebuild is missing something in the ./configure command.

> Now what is strange is if I just get the tarball and configure with
> the same parameters and compile out of tree, it works fine -- at least
> up to the point of make install.  I would like to do things in such a
> way that portage knows its there in case there is a preserved lib or
> something that I need to take care of.  I  could not figure what the
> difference is as to why the ebuild does not work and my out of tree
> compile works, so it looks like I have two choices:
>
> 1.  unmerge and just maintain the out of tree build or
> 2. Leave it there and just do a make update which copies the binaries
> over the old ones.  If I do number 2, it might be impossible to go to
> the 17.1 profile, so I am of two minds about this.
>
> If anyone has any insight into this I would appreciate it very much.
>
> Thanks.