On 04-02-2008 19:33:26 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote: > > Can you explain how exactly you set UNIXMODE? For understanding, what > > OS/libc is this, and what is the Portage version you use? > > Actually, it's an Atari Falcon (m68k) running FreeMiNT.
:) This makes me smile. :) > > Do I understand correctly if I say that you set UNIXMODE in your > > environment, call portage and that you find that the > > compilation/installation doesn't seem to have UNIXMODE set? > > Yes. I've fixed this currently with adding > > export UNIXMODE=.... > > at the top of ebuild.sh Ok, that's a crude hack, I'll ask around to see how we can do this properly. > > Wild idea, have you tried setting UNIXMODE in etc/make.conf? > > That's one of the first things I tried, no luck. > > I've got through all of the bootstrap process, and now starting emerging > the basics, but I've bumped into some more bash crashes, as I'm getting > these errors.... > > >>> Compiling source > in /root/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/sed-4.1.5/work/sed-4.1.5 ... > * The ebuild phase 'compile' has exited unexpectedly. This type of > * behavior is known to be triggered by things such as failed variable > * assignments (bug #190128) or bad substitution errors (bug #200313). > > * Messages for package sys-apps/sed-4.1.5: > > * The ebuild phase 'compile' has exited unexpectedly. This type of > * behavior is known to be triggered by things such as failed variable > * assignments (bug #190128) or bad substitution errors (bug #200313). > > which seems to be crashing when setting host_cpu. I'll try and figure > that out. Hmmm, I can't help you with this for the moment, what Portage version and what bash version are you using? > How do I go about sending patches in to get into the tree so I don't > lose the current patches when I do an emerge --sync ?? The tree is an svn tree, so no changes in the tree will be lost. Your change in ebuild.sh will get lost as soon as you update portage. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- [email protected] mailing list
