Re: [gentoo-user] emerge portage error

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

On 18 May 2010 13:11, Barry Jibb <barryjibbsausagesinc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/05/10 14:44, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>> On Sunday 16 May 2010 15:10:16 Simon wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Please help me to get rid of this error while emerging portage:
>>> # emerge portage
>>>
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Yea gods, the youth of today. In my day, when I was a little
>> whipper-snapper,
>> we actually read the ebuild. Why because? Because there was no-one else
>> around
>> to do our looking by proxy for us!
>>
>> So, in the interest of decomming the proxy in my head, herewith the magic
>> incantations to make your problem go "Poof!" and disappear:
>>
>> Firstly, you have tools to help. equery, euse, and many more. Learn how to
>> use
>> them, and use them.
>>
>> Secondly, read the ebuild. portage does what the ebuild says so the master
>> reference to figure out why portage wants to do something is in the ebuild
>> (or
>> eclasses that it inherits).
>>
>>
>>>
>>>   * "bsddb" module is out-of-date and no longer maintained inside
>>> dev-lang/python. It has
>>>   * been additionally removed in Python 3. You should use external,
>>> still maintained "bsddb3"
>>>   * module provided by dev-python/bsddb3 which supports both Python 2
>>> and Python 3.
>>>   *
>>>   * ERROR: dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r4 failed.
>>>   * Call stack:
>>>   *                ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called pkg_setup
>>>   *   python-2.5.4-r4.ebuild, line   64:  Called built_with_use
>>> 'pkg_setup' 'pkg_setup'
>>>   *            eutils.eclass, line 1862:  Called die
>>>   * The specific snippet of code:
>>>   *                                      die)   die "$PKG does not
>>> actually support the $1 USE flag!";;
>>>   *  The die message:
>>>   *   sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2 does not actually support the libffi USE flag!
>>>
>>
>>  From the ebuild:
>> pkg_setup() {
>>         if use berkdb; then
>>                 ewarn "\"bsddb\" module is out-of-date and no longer
>> maintained inside dev-lang/python. It has"
>>                 ewarn "been additionally removed in Python 3. You should
>> use
>> external, still maintained \"bsddb3\""
>>                 ewarn "module provided by dev-python/bsddb3 which supports
>> both Python 2 and Python 3."
>>         fi
>>
>>         if built_with_use sys-devel/gcc libffi; then
>>                 die "Reinstall sys-devel/gcc with \"libffi\" USE flag
>> disabled"
>>         fi
>> }
>>
>>
>> So, to get rid of the bsddb ewarn, you need to remove that "berkdb" from
>> USE.
>>
>> And the build failure is staring you right there in the face. As we say
>> here
>> at the tip of Africa, "As dit 'n slang was, het dit jou gepik" [If it were
>> a
>> snake, it would have already bitten you].
>>
>>
>> You have "USE=libffi" which doesn't work. Remove it, sync the tree,
>> rebuild
>> world. (your portage and gcc versions have updates available, even on
>> stable)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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Mick