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 1MmBix-00037n-9e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:23:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 862CEE0205; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:23:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606D4E0205 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:23:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44BE5665B6 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:23:57 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.402 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.402 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.803, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 18eLsg+TJpRs for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:23:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97EFE66FA4 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:23:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MmBih-0000Oy-KO for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:23:43 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-219-93.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.219.93]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:23:43 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-219-93.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:23:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Error emergin mkinitrd Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:23:23 -0700 Message-ID: References: <445a8b100909110858h4e980f06ka078a379096da5c5@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-219-93.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090911 Shredder/3.0b4pre In-Reply-To: <445a8b100909110858h4e980f06ka078a379096da5c5@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 0d39620f-5907-4892-9a55-625392e8e06a X-Archives-Hash: 2f6dbd4754be568ad65b6af6bbdbd152 On 09/11/2009 08:58 AM, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > Hi all. > > I've a problem trying to emerge mkinitrd. > > Everytime I try, I get: > > * ERROR: sys-apps/mkinitrd-3.5.7-r3 failed. > * Call stack: > * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile > * environment, line 2212: Called die > * The specific snippet of code: > * emake || die "nash compile failed."; A search at bugs.gentoo.org turned up this bug report, filed in June and solved almost a month ago: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268285 So why is package still broken? Good question. Why are more people not complaining? Dunno. I don't use that package and it seems that very few others do. Just out of curiosity, why are you trying to install mkinitrd?