Bugzilla Bug 154777

[ebuild  N    ] app-text/ghostscript-gnu-8.55  USE="X -cjk -cups -emacs gtk
-jpeg2k" 0 kB 

alexander@blatt ~ $ sudo emerge -v ghostscript-gnu
Calculating dependencies... done!

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-text/ghostscript-gnu-8.55 to /

 * gnu-ghostscript-8.55.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-) ...                                    
                            [ ok ]
 * gnu-ghostscript-8.55.tar.bz2 RMD160 ;-) ...                                 
                            [ ok ]
 * gnu-ghostscript-8.55.tar.bz2 SHA1 ;-) ...                                   
                            [ ok ]
 * gnu-ghostscript-8.55.tar.bz2 SHA256 ;-) ...                                 
                            [ ok ]
 * gnu-ghostscript-8.55.tar.bz2 size ;-) ...                                   
                            [ ok ]
 * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ...                                           
                            [ ok ]
 * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ...                                          
                            [ ok ]
 * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...                                         
                            [ ok ]
 * checking gnu-ghostscript-8.55.tar.bz2 ;-) ...                               
                            [ ok ]
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking gnu-ghostscript-8.55.tar.bz2 to /Gentoo/Portage/build/portage/app-text/ghostscript-gnu-8.55/work
sed: can't read src/Makefile.in: Too many levels of symbolic links

!!! ERROR: app-text/ghostscript-gnu-8.55 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1568:   Called dyn_unpack
  ebuild.sh, line 708:   Called src_unpack
  ghostscript-gnu-8.55.ebuild, line 90:   Called die

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

alexander@blatt ~ $ emerge --info
^[[5~Portage 2.1.2_rc1-r5 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0,
2.6.18-suspend2.045 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18-suspend2.045 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor        
1.50GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 05:50:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r6
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, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
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="-O2 -mtune=pentium-m -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/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/Gentoo/Portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical"
FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache collision-protect distlocks
metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="        http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/  
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/     
ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/    
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/        
ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo        
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/ "
LANG="C"
LC_ALL="C"
LINGUAS="de"
PKGDIR="/Gentoo/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="/Gentoo/Portage/build"
PORTDIR="/Gentoo/Portage/tree"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/Gentoo/Portage/local-tree/misc"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts cli cracklib crypt dlloader dri elibc_glibc
esd fortran gdbm gnome gstreamer hal iconv input_devices_evdev
input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog kdeenablefinal
kdehiddenvisibility kernel_linux libedit libg++ libnotify linguas_de ncurses
nls nptl nptlonly pcre perl ppds pppd python readline reflection session spl
ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_fbdev
video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via xorg zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

thanks, I fixed that in the code by moving the linking around a bit.