[gentoo-user] Python build dying!!!!

[gentoo-user] Python build dying!!!!

[Andrew Lowe]

Hi all,
	I'm in the process of trying to install an application called Hellanzb. 
It's a python based app with a 3rd party ebuild. I've installed it at 
work, with no problems, so it looks like I've got some problem on my 
machine.

	The error from the hallanzb emerge led me to believe that my python 
install is in some way damaged. I then did an "emerge python" to 
hopefully rebuild the installation but now I get errors when building 
python. The ebuild kicks off, unpacks and starts compiling. It then 
looks like it's placing stuff in appropriate places and then dies!!!!

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..
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running install
running build
running build_ext
db.h: found (4, 3) in /usr/include
db.h: found (4, 2) in /usr/include/db4.2
db lib: using (4, 3) db-4.3
INFO: Can't locate Tcl/Tk libs and/or headers
make: *** [sharedinstall] Segmentation fault

!!! ERROR: dev-lang/python-2.4.3-r1 failed.
Call stack:
   ebuild.sh, line 1543:   Called dyn_install
   ebuild.sh, line 1017:   Called src_install
   python-2.4.3-r1.ebuild, line 188:   Called die

!!! (no error message)
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call 
stack if relevant.

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I placed "tcl" and "tcltk" into my USE variables and tried the reinstall 
again, "emerge --newuse python", Tcl etc get called in and installed 
with no problems, but then the  above problem hit again.

	Does anyone know what's wrong with my Python install and how I can fix 
it? I can emerge other stuff, the Tcl for example, with no problems, so 
I have a Python install of some sort, Python V2.4.3, but it doesn't seem 
to be complete.

	Yours in frustration,
		Andrew
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Re: [gentoo-user] Python build dying!!!!

[Richard Fish]

On 8/12/06, Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au> wrote:
> I placed "tcl" and "tcltk" into my USE variables and tried the reinstall
> again, "emerge --newuse python", Tcl etc get called in and installed
> with no problems, but then the  above problem hit again.

I don't think tcl/tk support is the problem.  But python-updater and
revdep-rebuild might help.

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] Python build dying!!!!

[Andrew Lowe]

Richard Fish wrote:
> On 8/12/06, Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au> wrote:
> 
>> I placed "tcl" and "tcltk" into my USE variables and tried the reinstall
>> again, "emerge --newuse python", Tcl etc get called in and installed
>> with no problems, but then the  above problem hit again.
> 
> 
> I don't think tcl/tk support is the problem.  But python-updater and
> revdep-rebuild might help.
> 
> -Richard

	Ran python-updater and now every time I try and run emerge, emerge 
--help, emerge --version, emerge --update etc, all I get output to the 
screen is "Segmentation fault" and then back to the command prompt. I 
can start up the Python interpreter and get it to print "Hellow World", 
the limit of my Python knowledge.

	I can remmeber yesterday, before all of this started, emerging 
something and seeing some output saying that "-mcpu" was depricated and 
that I should use "-march". I changed that then subsequently did the 
emerge of python then the python-updater, now I get the "Seg fault" problem.

	Now if I try to run python-updater I get an error about PORTDIR not 
existing, that I should run "portageq portdir" and see the output. I run 
this and I get the seg fault again.

	Looks like I'm going to have to look into doing a manual rebuild of 
portage - bumma!!!

	Andrew
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Re: [gentoo-user] Python build dying!!!!

[Richard Fish]

On 8/12/06, Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au> wrote:
>         Looks like I'm going to have to look into doing a manual rebuild of
> portage - bumma!!!

Ugh, yeah.  If you have FEATURES=buildpkg, you can try to untar the
python package.  That might at least get you back to a working python
setup.

-Richard
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