Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mythtv fails... again

[Gregory Shearman <zekeyg@gmail.com>]

In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> I wrote:
>
>> Shawn Haggett writes:
>> > Some recent updates have broken my mythtv (missing libraries) so I'm of
>> > course trying to recompile it. Whenever I try however, the following
>> > happens:
>> >
>> > sgc ~ # emerge -va mythtv
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p18314-r1/temp/environment: line
>> > 3924: cd:
>> > /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p18314-r1/work/branches/release-0
>> >-2 1-fixes/mythtv: No such file or directory
>> > sed: can't read
>> > /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p18314-r1/work/branches/release-0
>> >-2 1-fixes/mythtv/version.pro: No such file or directory
>>
> [...]
>> I just had the same problem with a fresh install of mythtv. I tried other
>> versions, 0.21_p19961-r2 showed the same problem, but 0.21_p20877 did
>> compile. So give that one a try.
>
> Now python-updater wants to rebuild mythtv, and fails to do so because of 
> the missing version.pro. Same version which built before. The ebuild's date 
> is from july 20th, some days before I emerged it, so there was no silent 
> change.
>
> Strange. But for the moment I don't care, no time yet to play with mythtv.
>
> BTW, the expected .../work/mythtv-0.21_p20877/version.pro can be found in 
> .../work/branches/release-0-21-fixes/mythtv/version.pro.

I had the same problem. What I've done is to remove ~x86 from mythtv in
/etc/portage/package.keywords and then rerun the python updater on the
older stable mythtv version (0.21_p18314-r1). The compile completed
successfully.

-- 
Regards,

Gregory.
Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power

-- 
Regards,

Gregory.
Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power