Re: [gentoo-user] pam-1.1.4 emerge error on x86

[Jonas de Buhr <jonas.de.buhr@gmx.net>]

Am Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:50:23 +0100
schrieb Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>:

>[snip snip]
> [snip...]
> 
> > > Thank you!  :-)
> > 
> > you're welcome ;)
> > its really easy to help you because you provide the right
> > information =)
> 
> To save me asking next time ... how did you know that pax-utils was
> to blame?

i saw this error:

> /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/pam-1.1.4/temp/environment: line 2226:
> scanelf: command not found
>  * ERROR: sys-libs/pam-1.1.4 failed (install phase):

and with

% equery b scanelf
 * Searching for scanelf ... 
app-misc/pax-utils-0.2.2 (/usr/bin/scanelf)

i knew that it belonged to pax-utils. that only works, if a package
owning that binary is installed. if there wasn't, i would have used a
web search engine. the results normally contain man pages saying which
package the command belongs to.

that means either /usr/bin/scanelf is missing or /usr/bin is not in the
path (at least not in the environment of portage). i thought the latter
would be unlikely :)