On Sunday 05 Jun 2016 11:35:04 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Portasge is not complaining, ./configure is...
True. I was speaking rather too loosely.
> ...and you appear to be misreading the output between what ./configure says
> with what eix & ebuilds says.
> This:
>
> No package 'mdds-1.0' found
>
> is not the same as this:
>
> $ eix mdds
> (1) (~)1.2.0(1/1.2){tbz2} **9999(1/9999)
>
> You don't have mdds-1.0, you have mdds-1.2 and there is no 1.0 candidate
> available for installation. So this is an ebuild bug and should be
> reported at bgo.
Okay, I'll get on with that.
> My setup has all those packages installed since a long time, but trying
> to re-install fails the same way as you. I reckon the maintainer missed
> the build failure.
Thanks for confirming what I thought, though I hadn't actually spelt it out.
--
Rgds
Peter
