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

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Alex Schuster<wonko@wonkology.org> 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.
>
>        Wonko
>
>

I've been dealing with this failure for a couple of weeks now. Nothing
new released to address it yet even though it seems there might be
some sort of a fix pending, or even possibly released (as per the last
couple of entries) but for me p20877 still doesn't build:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280516

- Mark