Re: [gentoo-user] emerge of ksh93 erroring out.. who can interpret

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Monday 07 January 2008, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I'm having a time getting ksh93 to install (build error at the end)
>
> USE='static' emerge -v ksh93
>
> The only other use flag coming up was `nls'
>
> I wasn't real eager for `static' necessarily but without `static' had
> already failed and I saw it was a possible flag.  Also it might be
> handy sometime in a trouble situation where only `/ ' is mounted.
>
> But that discussion is for some other time.
>
> Can anyone interpret this emerge failure and have some educated
> guesses what I should do to get it to compile.  That message follows
> the eix output below.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4210019.html?sid=a282fd302189d999924b214267ec5b90

especially last 4 posts

Apparently it's a bug, and has been fixed in later versions. You are 
using a stable 2004 version, in your position I would unmask ksh and 
emerge the latest unstable


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