Bugzilla Bug 1662

I get errors when trying to emerge the rar package. Here are the results: 
 
 root@spunky 09:24pm 
/tmp/ILINXR.install$ emerge rar 
Calculating dependencies ...done! 
>>> emerge app-arch/rar-2.90 to / 
 
>>> Downloading http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles/rarlnx29.sfx 
--19:17:20--  http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/distfiles/rarlnx29.sfx 
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/rarlnx29.sfx' 
Resolving www.ibiblio.org... done. 
Connecting to www.ibiblio.org[152.2.210.81]:80... connected. 
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK 
Length: 216,145 [text/plain] 
 
100%[=======================================================>] 216,145       69.96K/s    ETA 
00:00 
 
19:17:23 (69.96 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/rarlnx29.sfx' saved [216145/216145] 
 
>>> Unpacking source... 
/var/tmp/portage/rar-2.90/work/rarlnx29.sfx: relocation error: 
/var/tmp/portage/rar-2.90/work/rarlnx29.sfx: undefined symbol: atexit 
>>> Source unpacked. 
>>> Nothing to compile... 
 
>>> Install rar-2.90 into /var/tmp/portage/rar-2.90/image/ category app-arch 
>>> dobin: making rar executable... 
install: cannot stat `rar': No such file or directory 
>>> dobin: making unrar executable... 
install: cannot stat `unrar': No such file or directory 
/usr/lib/portage/bin/dodoc: *.txt does not exist. 
strip: 
>>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/rar-2.90/image/ 
 
>>> Merging app-arch/rar-2.90 to / 
>>> Package will have counter 31 
--- /usr/ 
--- /usr/bin/ 
 
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... 
>>> app-arch/rar-2.90 merged. 
 
>>> Recording app-arch/rar in "world" favorites file... 
 
 
 * Regenerating GNU info directory index... 
 * Processed 58 info files. 
 * IMPORTANT: 53 config files in /etc need updating. 
 * Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files. 
 
root@spunky 07:17pm 
/tmp/ILINXR.install$

What glibc package do you have installed?

/var/db/pkg/sys-libs says only glibc-2.2.5-r3 

looks like the rar sfx archive is incompatible with our glibc.  Bummer!

I found that the new rar beta, rarlinux-3.0.b5.tar.gz is, well, a gzip file and
therefore can be 
extracted. The rar and unrar binaries in the archive also run under the current
glibc, so 
Perhaps updated the emerge to that version is a good idea? 

I cannot reproduce this. emerge rar success on both glibc-2.2.5-r2 and -r3 for
me.  It also works for Seemant. I will however create a new ebuild for 3.0 beta
5 and mask it.

Also, I noticed from your screen dump that you have 53 files in /etc/ needing
updating. You might find running etc-update fixes the problem, but that doesn't
seem related to the kind of error messages you're seeing.

rar-3.0_beta5 added to portage and masked.

Its odd that it worked for you, but whatever. ;) I didn't know there was an
etc-update command, 
thanks for the tip, doing all the config files by hand is a PITA. Anyway, the
solution sounds 
good. (masked 3.0 ebuild)