Bugzilla Bug 118697

When installing qdvdauthor-0.1.0 with PORTAGE_TMPDIR set I'm getting the
following error message. If PORTAGE_TMPDIR is not set it is installed without
problems.


>>> Install qdvdauthor-0.1.0 into /usr/var/portage/qdvdauthor-0.1.0/image/ category media-video
make: Entering directory
`/usr/var/portage/qdvdauthor-0.1.0/work/qdvdauthor-0.1.0/qdvdauthor'
test -d ../bin/ || mkdir -p ../bin/
g++  -o ../bin/qdvdauthor .obj/main.o .obj/log.o .obj/utils.o .obj/global.o
.obj/execute.o .obj/dvdinfo.o .obj/dvdmenu.o .obj/keyword.o .obj/dialogman.o
.obj/modifiers.o .obj/importsrt.o .obj/exportsrt.o .obj/qdvdauthor.o
.obj/undobuffer.o .obj/menuobject.o .obj/textobject.o .obj/dialogtemp.o
.obj/importkino.o .obj/dialogmovie.o .obj/frameobject.o .obj/imageobject.o
.obj/movieobject.o .obj/dialogframe.o .obj/menupreview.o .obj/dialogsetup.o
.obj/subtitlesgui.o .obj/buttonobject.o .obj/dialogbutton.o .obj/qimagehelper.o
.obj/colortoolbar.o .obj/layoutwizard.o .obj/kimageeffect.o
.obj/listviewmedia.o .obj/sourcetoolbar.o .obj/buttonpreview.o
.obj/xml_dvdauthor.o .obj/dialogexecute.o .obj/templatewizard.o
.obj/dialogtextfont.o .obj/qdvdauthorinit.o .obj/dialoganimation.o
.obj/dialogundostack.o .obj/sourcefileentry.o .obj/importdvdauthor.o
.obj/exportdvdauthor.o .obj/objectcollection.o .obj/structuretoolbar.o
.obj/dvdmenuundoobject.o .obj/listviewitemmedia.o .obj/dragndropcontainer.o
.obj/animationattribute.o .obj/dialogcommandeditor.o .obj/startmenurender.o
.obj/mediainfo.o .obj/mediacreator.o .obj/mediascanner.o
.obj/sourcefiledialog.o .obj/startstopcontrol.o .obj/listviewfileitem.o
.obj/dummywidget.o .obj/mediainterface.o .obj/soundline.o .obj/imageline.o
.obj/slidertime.o .obj/filterline.o .obj/dialogfilter.o .obj/dialogcreate.o
.obj/imagepreview.o .obj/xml_slideshow.o .obj/xineinfo.o .obj/xinewidget.o
.obj/kxinewidget.o .obj/qxinewidget.o .obj/kaffeineswidget.o
.obj/dialogqxinesetup.o .obj/formmain.o .obj/dialogslide.o .obj/dialogimage.o
.obj/uidialogcreate.o .obj/uisourcefiledialog.o .obj/uistartstopcontrol.o
.obj/uitemptab.o .obj/uisubtitles.o .obj/uinewwizard.o .obj/dialogmatrix.o
.obj/dialogresize.o .obj/uidialogmovie.o .obj/uidialogabout.o
.obj/uidialogsetup.o .obj/uidialogframe.o .obj/dialoggeometry.o
.obj/uidialogbutton.o .obj/uisourcewidget.o .obj/uicommandeditor.o
.obj/uidialogtextfont.o .obj/uitemplatewizard.o .obj/uidialoganimation.o
.obj/uistructurewidget.o .obj/uidialogextraction.o .obj/uidialogrenderpreview.o
.obj/qmake_image_collection.o .obj/moc_execute.o .obj/moc_dvdmenu.o
.obj/moc_dialogman.o .obj/moc_qdvdauthor.o .obj/moc_menuobject.o
.obj/moc_textobject.o .obj/moc_dialogtemp.o .obj/moc_dialogmovie.o
.obj/moc_frameobject.o .obj/moc_imageobject.o .obj/moc_movieobject.o
.obj/moc_dialogframe.o .obj/moc_menupreview.o .obj/moc_dialogsetup.o
.obj/moc_subtitlesgui.o .obj/moc_buttonobject.o .obj/moc_dialogbutton.o
.obj/moc_colortoolbar.o .obj/moc_sourcetoolbar.o .obj/moc_buttonpreview.o
.obj/moc_listviewmedia.o .obj/moc_dialogexecute.o .obj/moc_dialogtextfont.o
.obj/moc_templatewizard.o .obj/moc_dialogundostack.o .obj/moc_dialoganimation.o
.obj/moc_objectcollection.o .obj/moc_structuretoolbar.o
.obj/moc_dialogcommandeditor.o .obj/moc_sourcefiledialog.o
.obj/moc_startstopcontrol.o .obj/moc_mediainterface.o .obj/moc_soundline.o
.obj/moc_imageline.o .obj/moc_slidertime.o .obj/moc_filterline.o
.obj/moc_dialogfilter.o .obj/moc_dialogcreate.o .obj/moc_imagepreview.o
.obj/moc_kxinewidget.o .obj/moc_qxinewidget.o .obj/moc_dialogqxinesetup.o
.obj/moc_formmain.o .obj/moc_dialogslide.o .obj/moc_dialogimage.o
.obj/moc_uidialogcreate.o .obj/moc_uisourcefiledialog.o
.obj/moc_uistartstopcontrol.o .obj/moc_uitemptab.o .obj/moc_uisubtitles.o
.obj/moc_uinewwizard.o .obj/moc_dialogmatrix.o .obj/moc_dialogresize.o
.obj/moc_uidialogmovie.o .obj/moc_uidialogabout.o .obj/moc_uidialogsetup.o
.obj/moc_uidialogframe.o .obj/moc_dialoggeometry.o .obj/moc_uidialogbutton.o
.obj/moc_uisourcewidget.o .obj/moc_uicommandeditor.o
.obj/moc_uidialogtextfont.o .obj/moc_uitemplatewizard.o
.obj/moc_uidialoganimation.o .obj/moc_uistructurewidget.o
.obj/moc_uidialogextraction.o .obj/moc_uidialogrenderpreview.o  
-L/usr/qt/3/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib `xine-config --cflags --libs` -lqt-mt -lXext
-lX11 -lm
-lpthread
ACCESS DENIED  mkdir:     /share
mkdir: cannot create directory
`/usr/var/portage/qdvdauthor-0.1.0/image/../../../../../../share': Permission
denied
make: *** [install_i18n] Error 1
make: Leaving directory
`/usr/var/portage/qdvdauthor-0.1.0/work/qdvdauthor-0.1.0/qdvdauthor'

!!! ERROR: media-video/qdvdauthor-0.1.0 failed.
!!! Function src_install, Line 53, Exitcode 2
!!! qdvdauthor install failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

--------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY
---------------------------
LOG FILE = "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-media-video_-_qdvdauthor-0.1.0-21994.log"

mkdir:     /share
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------



My emerge info:

Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre13
Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r2,
2.6.14-gentoo-r4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env
/usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c
/etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="de"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/var"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib accessibility acpi aim alsa apache2 apm
arts asf audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bonobo
bzip2 cdparanoia cdr chipcard crypt cups curl dba dga directfb divx4linux doc
dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emacs-w3 emboss encode exif expat f77 fam
fame fbcon ffmpeg flac flash font-server foomaticdb fortran ftp gcc-libffi gcj
gd gdbm geldkarte gif gimp gimpprint glut gmp gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2
gtkhtml guile hbci icq idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 irmc jabber jce jpeg kde lcms
ldap libg++ libwww lirc live lzo mad maildir mailwrapper mbox mhash mikmod
milter mime ming mjpeg mmx mmx2 mmxext mng modplug motif mozilla mp3 mpeg
mplayer msn mysql mythtv nas ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia
objc objc-gc odbc offensive ofx ogg oggvorbis on-the-fly-crypt openal opengl
oscar oss pam pcre pdflib perl php plugin png ppds print python qt quicktime
quotes readline real recode scanner sdl slang smime spell spl sqlite sse ssl
svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tidy tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales utf8 v4l v4l2 vfat videos vidix
visualization vorbis win32codecs wmf x86 xine xml xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid yahoo
yv12 zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS

that's really strange! On my system, I don't have these relative paths.

But: the Makefiles are generated by the Qt framework, which takes its defaults
and put them into the generated Makefiles for the project. Perhaps your Qt
installation is somewhat damaged? Just an idea...

I haven't changed anything at Qt by myself.
I could try to uninstall and reinstall Qt - I see how much time revdep-rebuild
takes after that - to test it.

But if my Qt installation is really damaged than it must have something to do
with the slotted Qt 3 and Qt 4 installation. Means some time I installed Qt 4
beside Qt 3 as it is done automatically by portage. Because I had many problems
to install Qt programms after that I uninstalled Qt 4.

Btw, I should search bugzilla and if applicable file a new bug report because
it shouldn't be necessary to have installed both Qt versions parallel because
of Qt4's Qt3Support.

It took a while but finally I've tried it again.

I deinstalled Qt - Qt3 as well as Qt4 - completely, installed Qt3 completely
new, did an emerge -uDN world, an emerge depclean and a revdep-rebuild, but
qdvdauthor still doesn't install when PORTAGE_TMPDIR is set and prints the same
error message as in my original comment.

So the reason for this error can't be a damaged Qt installation.

is it still valid with latest version in portage?

It's still valid.

The error messages of qdvdauthor-0.1.2-r1 are nearly the same as these of
0.1.0:

ACCESS DENIED  mkdir:     /share
mkdir: cannot create directory
`/usr/var/portage/qdvdauthor-0.1.2-r1/image/../../../../../../share':
Permission denied
make: *** [install_i18n] Error 1
make: Leaving directory
`/usr/var/portage/qdvdauthor-0.1.2-r1/work/qdvdauthor-0.1.2/qdvdauthor'

!!! ERROR: media-video/qdvdauthor-0.1.2-r1 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1546:   Called dyn_install
  ebuild.sh, line 1020:   Called src_install
  qdvdauthor-0.1.2-r1.ebuild, line 71:   Called die

!!! qdvdauthor install failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if
relevant.

--------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY
---------------------------
LOG FILE =
"/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-media-video_-_qdvdauthor-0.1.2-r1-12275.log"

mkdir:     /share
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


And this is the new emerge --info:

Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5
Portage 2.1.2_pre2-r6 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1,
glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+
Last Sync: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 19:00:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.3, 2.0.29
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r3
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo
/etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="de"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/var"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib accessibility acpi alsa apache2 apm
arts asf audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdda cddb
cdparanoia cdr chipcard cli crypt cups curl dga directfb divx dlloader doc dri
dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds effects elibc_glibc emacs emboss encode expat
extrafilters fam fame fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp
gcc-libffi gcj gd gdbm geldkarte gif gimp glitz gmedia gmp gnutls gpm graphviz
gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hbci iconv idn imagemagick imlib inkjar
input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 irmc
isdnlog jce jpeg kde kernel_linux lcms ldap leim libg++ linguas_de lirc
lirc_devices_devinput live lm_sensors mad mailwrapper mbox mbrola mikmod mjpeg
mmx mmx2 mmxext mng modplug motif mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mysql mysqli nas
ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia objc objc++ objc-gc odbc
offensive ofx ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdf perl php plugin png ppds
pppd print python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime quotes readline real realmedia
reflection reiserfs rtc rtsp scanner sdl session slang slideshow smime speex
spell spl sqlite sse sse-filters ssl svg svga tcl tcltk tcpd tetex theora
threads tidy tiff tk tokenizer tools truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev
unicode usb userland_GNU v4l v4l2 vdr video_cards_nvidia video_cards_v4l vidix
visualization vlm vorbis win32codecs wmf wmp xcomposite xine xml xml2 xmms xorg
xpm xv xvid yv12 zip zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

well, I can't reproduce it and you are the only one who has this problem
currently. Have you tried it on another machine yet?

just an idea:

FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"

I'm not sure, but it would be worth a test. Please try to set FEATURES
temporarily to:

FEATURES="sandbox"

and then try to emerge qdvdauthor.

(In reply to comment #6)
> well, I can't reproduce it and you are the only one who has this problem
> currently. Have you tried it on another machine yet?

Maybe there's noone else who has set a different PORTAGE_TMPDIR and has
installed qdvdauthor. I don't know.

Unfortunately I don't have another machine. I hope I can switch a computer of a
relative to Linux and do a fresh Gentoo installation there in a few weeks.

(In reply to comment #7)
> just an idea:
> 
> FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"

These are the standard portage features. I haven't changed anything.

> I'm not sure, but it would be worth a test. Please try to set FEATURES
> temporarily to:
> 
> FEATURES="sandbox"
> 
> and then try to emerge qdvdauthor.

Or do you mean FEATURES="-sandbox" because I already have sandbox enabled? I
think this could work but I guess it's not really the best method particularly
with regard to `emerge -uDN world`.

But I'll try it anyway.

`FEATURES="-sandbox" emerge qdvdauthor` worked.

1. no, I really meant 'sandbox', not '-sandbox'. I want to be sure that the
other feature-flags doesn't harm somehow.

2. I don't see the reason, why setting PORTAGE_TMPDIR should harm, because it's
always set, even if you don't (re)define it.

3. there are other qdvdauthor-users, since I get bugzillas other than this for
qdvdauthor. ;-)

new version is in portage. Please test it. thanks!

It still doesn't install. But this time it seems to be related to the i18n
part. The translations seem to be installed into the wrong directory.
As the error log says it tries to install something into
`/usr/var/portage/media-video/qdvdauthor-0.1.4/image/../../../../../../../share/qdvdauthor/qdvdauthor_de.qm'.
This relative path points to a directory level above / which of course doesn't
exist. So it tries to install the translations into /share/qdvdauthor which
doesn't exist and which should be /usr/share/qdvdauthor. In the relative path
there are two "/.." too much.

I'll attach the new error log.

Created an attachment (id=105737) [edit]
qdvdauthor-0.1.4-errorlog

I still believe that this is a problem with your installation. I still can not
reproduce it and you seem to be the only one with this problem.

Can you please try it on a fresh installation?

sometimes it might help to cleanup broken symlinks. please emerge
app-misc/symlinks and then run:

symlinks -dr /usr /bin /sbin

that command doesn't harm, it just deletes any broken links.

There might be other orphant files...

(In reply to comment #14)
> I still believe that this is a problem with your installation. I still can not
> reproduce it and you seem to be the only one with this problem.

I don't think that's a problem with my installation because qdvdauthor is the
only ebuild with what I have such a problem. Btw. the problem with
qdvdauthor-0.1.4 is a different problem than the problem with the previous
versions.

> Can you please try it on a fresh installation?

Sorry, but I can't. It would take more than a week to do a fresh Gentoo
installation.

I'm thinking about buying a new CPU and a new mainboard. If I decide to doing
so I'll have to do a fresh install anyway. If I decide not to doing so a fresh
install takes too long.

> symlinks -dr /usr /bin /sbin

Nice and useful tool but it didn't help either.

> There might be other orphant files...

I don't think that the problem are some orphaned files because with this new
version it's a permission problem. It tries to create a directory
/share/qdvdauthor or - after deleting every "INSTALL_ROOT="${D}" from the
ebuild function src_install() - /usr/share/qdvdauthor. But it can't create
these directories.

I think that the actual problem is with the first three lines in this function
and the extremely weird relative path in the Makefile. I don't know why this
has to be a path like somepath/../../../../../../../../../share/someotherpath
and why this can't just directly be the absolute path /usr/share/someotherpath.
I mean this is the path where the files shall be stored. But if this is the
problem then it's an upstream bug.

But in the ebuild you are installing nearly everything "by hand" without make
install. Why don't you just install/copy the translations also by hand to
/usr/share/qdvdauthor? This seems to be the only thing what the three make
install targets which you are running in the src_install() are trying to do.

I haven't tried it yet but I guess if you would copy these file "by hand"
without the make install then the problem would be solved.

I just read the original error message. It's still the same problem.

ACCESS DENIED  mkdir:     /share
mkdir: cannot create directory
`/usr/var/portage/qdvdauthor-0.1.0/image/../../../../../../share': Permission
denied

This also tried to create a directory /share which it is not allowed to. I
guess it somehow tries to create a directory outside the sandbox.

Why this only happens on my system I don't know. But as I wrote in my last
comment I think that it's only related to the i18n.

Ok, just copying the file in the i18n directory doesn't seem to work. It
installs but I'm getting a segfault when starting qdvdauthor.

I'll keep trying.

Btw, in the line "dodoc CHANGELOG INSTALL README TODO
doc/{bugs,ISO_639,render*,sound*,todo*}.txt" you should remove "bugs, " because
there's no file doc/bugs.txt in the new version.

1. fixed dodoc in my local overlay. I have some other small fixes for
qdvdauthor, so I will commit at once as soon I think everything is ok.

2. ACCESS DENIED problem: of course, on your system, the install process tries
to install directly into the filesystem outside the sandbox. So the message is
correct and indeed wanted. But I still don't see why this happens.

stay tuned...

ahh, well. Can you please send me a tarball of the tempdir after installation
failed? So just try to emerge and as soon it fails, run:

tar cjvf qdvdauthor-fail.tar.bz2 /usr/var/portage/media-video/qdvdauthor-0.1.4/

please send it to: sbriesen@gentoo.org

thanks!

Ha!

Now I can reproduce it!!!!!

it's indeed the PORTAGE_TMPDIR. But *not* the variable itself (I also have set
it on my system, but to a different place), but it's the location you've set!

PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/gentoo" <- works
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/var" <- doesn't work

I guess portage (or some other component) gets confused about the "/usr" in
PORTAGE_TMPDIR. It might be a bug, but nonetheless, setting "/usr/var" as the
TMPDIR looks strange to me, because /usr isn't supposed for temporary files at
all. Please move your PORTAGE_TMPDIR somewhere under /var (i.e. /var/gentoo).

But now I try to find out, where that bug is hidden...

I've also tried a bit. The problem seems to be in the three makefiles which are
build during the compilation and which are used by the three makes in the
src_install() function.

I'll add a new ebuild which for me compiles and installs qdvdauthor without an
error except a few warnings. The only but big problem is that I'm getting a
segfault when starting qdvdauthor. But I don't know if this has something to do
with this bug or if this is another bug.

Created an attachment (id=105811) [edit]
qdvdauthor-0.1.4.ebuild

My new ebuild in which I replaced the paths like ../../../../.. with just usr.

And concerning the /usr/var I unfortunately can't use /var or /tmp as the
PORTAGE_TMPDIR because my root partition is a bit too small. So I have to use
my usr partition even if it breaks a bit the Linux filesystem standard.

Maybe when I switched some people's computers to Linux some time so that I
don't need Windoze anymore to help them and therefore I finally can remove it
I'll be able to repartition my hard disk and give the root partition more space
or I'll change my Linux installation to only one partition.

But as I wrote before I don't think that the bug is in portage or in your
ebuild but in the Makefiles of qdvdauthor.

Btw., there's usually also a /usr/tmp and a /usr/var directory in every Linux
distribution even if they are links to /tmp and /var in most cases. So I'm not
sure if my filesystem changes are really non-standard.

You're right, qmake generates that broken Makefiles. But only (!) if --prefix
is the same for your PORTAGE_TMPDIR (prefix = /usr and TMPDIR = /usr/..). 

> sed -i -e "2782,2803s:../../../../../../..:usr:g"

I can't implement it this way, because the number of ../ depends on your
installation/configuration.

The only correct fix right now is, to set PORTAGE_TMPDIR outside of /usr (i.e.
/var/gentoo). If I don't find a better solution, I will include a check in
pkg_setup() and stop building with a big fat warning, that PORTAGE_TMPDIR must
not beneath /usr. 

btw: if I set prefix=/tmp/blubb and PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/usr/var, it works! The
problem only arises, when prefix is part of PORTAGE_TMPDIR (which internally
sets $TMP and $TMPDIR also). But I didn't found out yet, if this is a problem
within qmake/qt or the project files of qdvdauthor.

aha. It's a Qt or qmake bug!

look here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-qt-kde/2006/05/msg00285.html

I try to find a solution...

ok, finally. It's neither a bug in portage, the ebuild, the project/make-files
nor in qmake. It's deliberate behaviour. qmake works this way and nobody will
fix this behaviour.

The only thing I can do is to include a slightly modified sed before
installation.

good luck my friend. I found a better solution! ;-)

adding -nocache to the qmake-calls in the configure-script solves that issue.

I will commit a new revision as soon bug #154694 is solved.

(In reply to comment #26)
> ok, finally. It's neither a bug in portage, the ebuild, the project/make-files
> nor in qmake. It's deliberate behaviour. qmake works this way and nobody will
> fix this behaviour.

Let's say it this way: I wouldn't say it's not a bug in qmake. ;-)

But I've forgotten that there are some other bugs related to qmake and at least
one other package (konverter) is not upgraded in the portage tree due to the
change from make to qmake: bug #97090 and bug #46805

From debian bugzilla:
"As this is deliberate behaviour and has a work-around, closing."

If there would have been posted what the work-around is it would have helped.

> The only thing I can do is to include a slightly modified sed before
> installation.

My sed command wasn't the best, I know. It was just a quick and dirty
work-around to test it.

(In reply to comment #27)
> good luck my friend. I found a better solution! ;-)
> ...

I'll test it as soon as it's in portage.

just tried media-video/qdvdauthor-0.1.4 - still the same error ...

0.1.4-r1 is in CVS now. Please test it. Reopen Bug if still not fixed.

It's working. Bug is fixed. Thanks.