From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SUPCi-0007eS-EV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 21:22:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 015AEE09CA; Tue, 15 May 2012 21:22:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E3CFE0BBD for ; Tue, 15 May 2012 21:21:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.43] (xdsl-78-35-159-248.netcologne.de [78.35.159.248]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BC9CCDC041 for ; Tue, 15 May 2012 23:21:03 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4FB2C8BF.2010206@wonkology.org> Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 23:21:03 +0200 From: Alex Schuster User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] HP A8 laptop install References: <82475EBE-AC08-41D1-93DC-DB90ED79EE79@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <20120515111139.7433de38@weird.wonkology.org> <4FB239F1.7030607@fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <4FB239F1.7030607@fu-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 30426e9a-616d-49ea-a8ad-62b41e3edbde X-Archives-Hash: b551f223a38d1427c458e89f23d6a4fe Hinnerk van Bruinehsen writes: > On 15.05.2012 11:11, Alex Schuster wrote: >> Stroller writes: >> >>> I boot from a SystemRescueCD and follow the Gentoo quick install guide. >>> >>> This has never failed me. >> >> For me it did, half a year ago, several packages failed to build due to >> strange libtool errors. It took me some days until I found the solution: >> unset path. >> >> Libtool uses this variable without unsetting it before, and SystemRescueCD >> defines it as environment variable, which is still available in the >> chroot. This messed things up a lot. [...] > Did you do env-update && . /etc/profile after entering chroot? > I always thought that setting the right environment variables was the > purpose of that. Sure. But this only _sets_ some environment variables - it does not unset any other variables you already have defined. The error is in libtool - it uses a variable without unsetting it first. Wonko