[gentoo-user] preprocess_ebuild_env error

[Guanqun Lu]

Hi list,

When I am trying to unmerge xorg-server, it complains as such:

/var/tmp/binpkgs/x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r2/temp/environment: line 4035: 
syntax error near unexpected token `('
/var/tmp/binpkgs/x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r2/temp/environment: line 4035: `
done (eval ${command})'
 * 
 * ERROR: x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r2 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *   ebuild.sh, line 1641:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *  preprocess_ebuild_env || \
 *  die error processing environment
 *  The die message:
 *   error processing environment
 * 
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call 
stack if relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at 
'/var/tmp/binpkgs/x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r2/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at 
'/var/tmp/binpkgs/x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r2/temp/environment'.
 * 

So, any idea?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

[Guanqun Lu]

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:22:30 -0600
Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[...]

 
 There are lots of distros (Linux and non-Linux) that either don't have a
 graphical install and/or don't have a large user base and still survive.
 I mean Slackware is probably the oldest living distro, is still kicking
 and screaming (for some strange reason) and it doesn't even have decent
 package management.  OpenBSD, which Gentoo more closely resembles than
 Ubuntu, has been around almost as long as Slack and it doesn't have a
 graphical installation. 

Yeah, they still survive. But why don't we expect more?
Let Gentoo be much more popular.

[...]

 
 Not installation CD: boot media.  But to answer your question I don't
 find it weird at all.  It's one of the selling points of Gentoo.  A few
 months ago I installed Gentoo on a partition on a machine that was
 installed with Ubuntu just by creating a partition, downloading a stage3
 tarball and doing a chroot.  Maybe it's weird to the outsider, but I
 think it's wonderful.

For the advanced users, your creating, downloading and chrooting is as
easy as pie. But for the outsider, it's rather complicated, and they wonder
why this step should taken instead of another.

The easy-to-use installation CD is good for starters, gives them a good 
impression.
We can't expect that all the Gentoo users should be a linux geek first, and then
have a try on Gentoo linux sytem.

[...]


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