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 1QI6F7-0001Jv-65 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 21:37:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B7AB1C08D; Thu, 5 May 2011 21:36:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 522C51C08D for ; Thu, 5 May 2011 21:36:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A813D2AC018 for ; Thu, 5 May 2011 21:36:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.866 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.866 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.267, 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 NsFN++mXLsWn for ; Thu, 5 May 2011 21:36:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED1431B404F for ; Thu, 5 May 2011 21:36:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QI6DU-000651-OR for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 23:36:12 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-182-118.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.182.118]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 May 2011 23:36:12 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-182-118.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 May 2011 23:36:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 14:35:46 -0700 Message-ID: References: <201105050626.11280.michaelkintzios@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@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-182-118.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b13pre) Gecko/20110401 Thunderbird/3.3a3 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3044d47a01fd183eca915e2182f41429 On 05/05/2011 07:13 AM, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > > > 2011/5/5 Mick > > > On Thursday 05 May 2011 03:00:23 Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I just installed a Gentoo box and i am having a bizarre problem (bizarre > > for me at least), i'd like to point that the only solution i have found so > > far (attempt to modify some eclass) is way beyond the limit of complexness > > that i am used to so if there is another way i would really appreciate if > > anyone pointed it out for me > > > > And in case it is not obvious, i am pretty much of a rookie regardind > > gentoo and linux in general > > > > anyway, thanks in advance!!! > > > > The thing is that emerging mirrorselect has the following outcome: > > > > * QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths > > * ERROR: dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428 failed: > > * soiled libtool library files found > > Hmm ... I don't know why this is caused, but I would run: > > emerge --oneshot -av libtool > > and then > > revdep-rebuild -v -- --ask > -- > Regards, > Mick > > > I tried to emerge libtool and i detected some seriously weird behaviour, emerge configures libtool over an over in an infinite loop... > > this is where the process resets: > > ... > running CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash /bin/bash ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib build_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu host_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe FFLAGS= FCFLAGS= --no-create --no-recursion > ## -------------------------- ## > ## Configuring libtool 2.2.10 ## > ## -------------------------- ## > > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c > checking whether build environment is sane... yes > checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p > checking for gawk... gawk > ... > > if i don't interrupt it just keep going, i think there is something seriously wrong with my system... You said you just installed gentoo. Have you ever emerged any package on that machine before? That is, was it working okay and then something broke it? What version of python are you using -- you may have version 2.x and version 3.x. If so, you should be using python 2.x when emerging things.