Re: [gentoo-dev] Problems compiling gv

[Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>]

On Wednesday 08 August 2001 15:31, you wrote:
> 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.

I'm committing to cvs now and it *should* do it. Make sure emerge rsync 
updates the gv ebuild, I don't know how much time it may take for the new 
version to be available via rsync.

In case even this fails, I think there's a slightly newer version of gv and 
I'm going to make an ebuild for that now.


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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel