On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Albert Hopkins <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 15:50 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 21:38 +0200, pk wrote:
> > > Albert Hopkins wrote:
> > > > I can't get netkit-rsh (not that I want it but it's an (indirect)
> > > > runtime dependency of xinit).  This is a brand new machine that I'm
> > > > building.
> > > >
> > > > Basically the error is:
> > > >
> > > >         Checking for BSD signal semantics... no
> > > >         This package needs BSD signal semantics to run.
> > > >         sed: can't read MCONFIG: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > Hm. I may be way off here but do you have CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y in
> > > your kernel .config?
> >
> > Cheers.  That was it.  For some reason I glossed over that thinking it
> > only had to do with sar but I guess not.
>
> Maybe I spoke too soon... Either I was on the wrong system when I tested
> or there's some inconsistency.  Nevertheless the problem doesn't appear
> fixed :(
>
>
Have you done an update to this system where glibc might have been upgraded
but not gcc or vice versa? Have you updated any system packages in general
on the system? As was mentioned earlier an emerge -e system might solve the
problem. If not, then we'll know that it's not a problem with one of the
system packages.

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