Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild (gawk) issues

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

On Tue, 29 May 2012 15:34:07 +0200
Rafa Griman <rafagriman@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all :)
> 
> New to this mailing list. I'm installing Gentoo and when I run
> revdep-rebuild I get the following error
> 
> # revdep-rebuild
>  * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild
> gawk: cmd. line:3: error: Unmatched [ or [^: /[^[:space:]]/
> gawk: cmd. line:3: error: Unmatched [ or [^: /[^[:space:]]/
> gawk: cmd. line:3: error: Unmatched [ or [^: /[^[:space:]]/
> gawk: cmd. line:3: error: Unmatched [ or [^: /[^[:space:]]/
>  * No search defined -- this is a bug.

You have stumbled upon a heretofore unseen behaviour of
revdep-rebuild :-)

In other words "we ain't never seen it do that before..."

Let's first establish where you are at in the installation.

Are you following the Installation Guide at gentoo.org?
If so, what point in the guide are you at? Are you still in the chroot
environment, or have you completed that part and successfully rebooted
at least once?

Do you have any personal customizations in your shell environment?
Is the shell bash?

And some basic info:
Post the entire content of /etc/make.conf and the output of "emerge
--info"

> #
> 
> I've been going through /usr/bin/revdep-rebuild.sh but can't quite fix
> the issue :( I've also been checking the Gentoo Forums and mailing
> list archive but didn't find anything (maybe I'm not searching
> correctly ;)
> 
> If I've got it right, the issue is because of how gawk and the shell
> interpret the "[" characters so I've been trying to escape them ...
> but I seem to be doing something wrong :(
> 
> I also get a similar error when trying to emerge qca:
> 
> >>> Unpacking source...
> >>> Unpacking qca-2.0.3.tar.bz2
> >>> to /var/tmp/portage/app-crypt/qca-2.0.3/work Source unpacked
> >>> in /var/tmp/portage/app-crypt/qca-2.0.3/work Preparing source
> >>> in /var/tmp/portage/app-crypt/qca-2.0.3/work/qca-2.0.3 ...
>  * Applying qca-2.0.2-pcfilespath.patch ...
>  * Applying qca-2.0.3+gcc-4.7.patch ...
> >>> Source prepared.
> >>> Configuring source
> >>> in /var/tmp/portage/app-crypt/qca-2.0.3/work/qca-2.0.3 ...
> Configuring Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA) ...
> Verifying Qt 4 build environment ... ok
> Checking for Qt >= 4.2 ... yes
> Checking for certstore ... /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
> 
> Good, your configure finished.  Now run /usr/bin/gmake.
> 
>  * Running qmake ...
> awk: cmd. line:7: error: Unmatched [ or [^:
> /^[[:blank:]]*CONFIG[[:blank:]]*[\+\*]?=/
>  *  - error while processing src/src.pro
>  * ERROR: app-crypt/qca-2.0.3 failed (configure phase):
>  *   eqmake4 failed to process src/src.pro
> 
> 
> Any hints, ideas, links, ...I could read into?
> 
> TIA
> 
>    Rafa
> 



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Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com