Re: [gentoo-dev] Problems compiling gv

[Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>]

On Wednesday 08 August 2001 17:32, you wrote:
> Dan Armak escreveu (Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:45:57AM +0300):
> > OK, I've changed the gv ebuild, though it's rather a guess, but it's the
> > only thing I can think of.
> > If that doesn't help after rsync, could you try to extract and install
> > the gv sources yourself, and see if that works?
> > A final question: after the make error, emerge shuold say it failed to
> > run something - what's that something? I want to know if it failed to
> > compile or to install.
>
> How do I do a clean rsync?
There's no such thing. Did I mention such a thing?

>
>    bash-2.04# emerge --clean rsync
>    !!! Error: --clean is an invalid option.
>
>    bash-2.04# emerge rsync clean
>    !!! Error: clean does not exist or is an invalid command-line option.
>
> Ok, I did a simple emerge rsync. Same error when emerging gv:
>
>    make[1]: *** No rule to make target `gv.man', needed by `gv._man'. 
> Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/portage/tmp/portage/gv-3.5.8/work/gv-3.5.8/source' make: *** [all]
> Error 2
>
>    !!! ERROR: the make command did not complete successfully.
>    !!! ("make")
>    !!! Since this is a critical task, ebuild will be stopped.
>
>    !!! emerge aborting on  /usr/portage/app-text/gv/gv-3.5.8.ebuild .
>
> I downloaded the sources with ebuild gv fetch, and got the same error when
> compiling.
>
I didn't really expect the problem to be in the ebuild anyway.
This all seems very strange, and I can't do much because I can't recreate the 
problem. If you could send me the entire compile output it might help, and 
then again it might not. I just don't know what to say :-(

One thing I *can* do is simply disable the makefile's operation on the 
manpage. The manpage is actually distibuted pre-compiled (not latex source or 
something), so all the makefile does is add a .1 extension and install it. So 
I'll do that now. Wait a couple of hours after this post, emerge rsync and 
try again.


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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel