Re: [gentoo-dev] Problems compiling gv

[Dan Armak <ermak@netvision.net.il>]

On Wednesday 08 August 2001 16:09, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 August 2001 16:06, you wrote:
> > 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.
>
>  Turns out there isn't a newer version - only rumours. Oh well. But my last
> cvs update might work :-)
>
Did it work?