On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Paul Hartman > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> One of my machines is giving an undesired response in eselect: >>> >>> c2stable ~ # eselect binutils list >>> !!! Error: Pattern does not match any installed version of binutils! >>> exiting >>> c2stable ~ # >> >> Mine does the same thing on 1 computer but works on 2 others. All with >> the same versions of all involved packages. Weird. >> > > Hey, at least I'm in good company if my old friend Paul Hartman sees > the same thing. :-) > > There is a patch to the binutils.eselect file here that worked for me: > > https://423525.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=316441 > > Before patching (if you do at all - I recommend you don't patch unless > you just want to) run this command in the directory you are running > eselect in. (For me it was just /root) > > echo -* > > On a 'good' machine it returns > > -q > > On a 'bad' machine here it returns > > --help -q > > I don't think the machine is really bad. I think eselect was likely > just not being selective enough about how it works with whatever is in > the directory or search path? Not sure. > > If you see something different you might add it to the bug report but > I suspect we've got the same issue.
Ah-ha. When I run the command from a directory which does not contain any files or dirs starting with hyphen, it is fine. In my user dir there is ~/- directory for some reason, so that must have been confusing it.
