[gentoo-user] Re: cups-filters failing to build

[walt <w41ter@gmail.com>]

On 11/24/2014 02:24 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> I've been having a really strange issue with net-print/cups-filters for
> the last few weeks, wondering whether or not it's a bug or I just have
> something configured wrong. Somehow ${S} is defined as:
> 
>     /var/tmp/portage/net-print/cups-filters-1.0.53/work/cups-filters-3.2.10

You're right.  That is a *really* strange error :)  Where did that 3.2.10 come
from?  I can't reproduce the same error here so I can only guess.  Have you
tried grepping for 3.2.10 in /var/tmp/portage/net-print/ ?

Running emerge with the -d flag can sometimes shed some light.  More light than
you probably want :)

> and the build predictably fails. Normally this wouldn't bother me (I
> don't use cups at all), except that cups is a build-time dependency for
> dev-java/icedtea.

I see there is a cups USEFLAG for icedtea.  Could you unset that flag for
icedtea as a workaround?

A question of my own:  the ebuilds for icedtea list the cups flag as +cups.
So far I haven't discovered a man page that explains the + prefix.  Is there
such a man page?