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From: Dan Armak <ermak@netvision.net.il>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild error
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Date: Wed Jul 11 05:33:05 2001
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On Wednesday 11 July 2001 14:07, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what are the reasons for this error to come :
>
> ebuild fping-2.4b1.ebuild digest
> !!! Name error in 2.4b1
> !!! Error: PF is null; exiting.
>
>
> the ebuild is as follows :
>
> P=fping-2.4b1.tar.gz
> S=${WORKDIR}/fping-2.4b1
> DESCRIPTION="A utility to ping multiple hosts at once"
> SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/admin/mon/${P}.tar.gz"
> HOMEPAGE="http://www.stanford.edu/~schemers/docs/fping/fping.html"
>
> src_unpack() {
> unpack ${A}
> cp ${FILESDIR}/fping.c ${S}
> }
>
> src_compile() {
>
> cd ${S}
> try ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=${CHOST}
> try make
>
> }
>
> src_install () {
>
> cd ${S}
> dobin fping
> doman fping.8
> dodoc COPYING ChangeLog README
>
> }
>
>
> regards,
>
> pm
>
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There are rules for naming ebuilds. Specifically, 2.4b1 isn't acceptable. Use
1.4_beta1 instead and it'll work. The reasons and rules for this are in one
of the tutorials somewhere :-)
HTH
Dan