Hinnerk van Bruinehsen writes:
> On 15.05.2012 11:11, Alex Schuster wrote:
>> Stroller writes:
>>
>>> I boot from a SystemRescueCD and follow the Gentoo quick install guide.
>>>
>>> This has never failed me.
>>
>> For me it did, half a year ago, several packages failed to build due to
>> strange libtool errors. It took me some days until I found the solution:
>> unset path.
>>
>> Libtool uses this variable without unsetting it before, and SystemRescueCD
>> defines it as environment variable, which is still available in the
>> chroot. This messed things up a lot.
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> Did you do env-update && . /etc/profile after entering chroot?
> I always thought that setting the right environment variables was the
> purpose of that.
Sure. But this only _sets_ some environment variables - it does not
unset any other variables you already have defined.
The error is in libtool - it uses a variable without unsetting it first.
Wonko
