[gentoo-releng] Re: /usr/bin/python symlink not created in stage1 build

[Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> wrote:
>> At the end of my stage1 build, I see (forgive me, Gmail's almost
>> definitely going to line wrap the hell out of this)
>>
>> copying stage1-preclean-chroot.sh to
>> /space/catalyst/tmp/default/stage1-mips4_n32-20110212/tmp/stage1root/tmp/
>> copying chroot-functions.sh to
>> /space/catalyst/tmp/default/stage1-mips4_n32-20110212/tmp/stage1root/tmp/
>> Running stage1-preclean-chroot.sh in chroot
>> /space/catalyst/tmp/default/stage1-mips4_n32-20110212/tmp/stage1root
>> /tmp/chroot-functions.sh: /usr/sbin/env-update: /usr/bin/python: bad
>> interpreter: No such file or directory
>>  * Python seems to be broken, attempting to locate CHOST ourselves ...
>>  * Switching native-compiler to mips64-unknown-linux-gnu-4.5.2 ... [ ok ]
>> /tmp/chroot-functions.sh: /usr/sbin/env-update: /usr/bin/python: bad
>> interpreter: No such file or directory
>> /usr/bin/binutils-config: /usr/bin/portageq: /usr/bin/python: bad
>> interpreter: No such file or directory
>>  * Switching to mips64-unknown-linux-gnu-2.21 ... [ ok ]
>> /tmp/chroot-functions.sh: /usr/sbin/env-update: /usr/bin/python: bad
>> interpreter: No such file or directory
>>
>> So no /usr/bin/python symlink gets created. This causes the subsequent
>> stage2 build to fail. I can chroot into the stage1 directory's
>> tmp/stage1root/ and confirm this with eselect.
>>
>> # eselect python list
>> Available Python interpreters:
>>  [1]   python2.7
>>
>> What's going on here and how do I make it work?
>>
>> nightmorph seems to allude to this problem here:
>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/dev/222149
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
>
> For completion sake, the problem is that the python ebuilds are
> broken. They don't add a python symlink if no python symlink existed
> before. This has been broken for a long time, and it's really stupidly
> annoying, especially when the fix has been available in the python
> overlay for three months.
>
> http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/python/changeset/405/overlays/python/dev-lang/python/python-2.7.2_pre20101128.ebuild
>
> Push it into the tree so that you don't continue to break my stage builds.
>
> Matt

This actually has been committed recently, my apologies.