Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.5.2-r7 build failure

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Peter Humphrey
<peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 January 2009 22:50:55 Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> [...]
>> Compiling
>> /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7/image//usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py
>>...
> [???]
>> make: *** [libinstall] Error 1
>>  *
>>  * ERROR: dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7 failed.
> [...]
>
> You've snipped the useful part, where I've indicated above with question
> marks. You need to find the first mention of an error. That should tell you
> what the problem is, or at least point to an investigation route.
>
> --
> Rgds
> Peter
>
>

Peter,
   Thanks for the reponse. I didn't snip anything out. This is all I see:

gandalf ~ # tail -20 /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7/temp/build.log
Compiling /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7/image//usr/lib/python2.5/xml/sax/saxutils.py
...
Compiling /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7/image//usr/lib/python2.5/xml/sax/xmlreader.py
...
Compiling /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7/image//usr/lib/python2.5/xmllib.py
...
Compiling /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7/image//usr/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py
...
Compiling /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7/image//usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py
...
make: *** [libinstall] Error 1
 *
 * ERROR: dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_install
 *             environment, line 3439:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *       make DESTDIR="${D}" altinstall maninstall || die;
 *  The die message:
 *   (no error message)
 *
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call
stack if relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7/temp/environment'.
 *
gandalf ~ #


I've now seen this on two machine, one x86, the other amd64. I'm
submitting a bug report

Thanks,
Mark