Bugzilla Bug 229297

sci-geosciences/grass-6.3.0 fails to compile with the following message:
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Following modules are missing the 'description.html' file in src code:
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GRASS GIS compilation log
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Started compilation: Tue Jun 24 14:13:10 PDT 2008
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Errors in:
/var/tmp/portage/sci-geosciences/grass-6.3.0/work/grass-6.3.0/gui/wxpython/vdigit
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In case of errors please change into the directory with error and run 'make'.
If you get multiple errors, you need to deal with them in the order they
appear in the error log. If you get an error building a library, you will
also get errors from anything which uses the library.
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Finished compilation: Tue Jun 24 14:18:38 PDT 2008
make: *** [default] Error 1
ln: creating symbolic link `dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/lib/libgdi.so': No such
file or directory
 *
 * ERROR: sci-geosciences/grass-6.3.0 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_compile
 *             environment, line 2897:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *           ln -sf "${LIBGDI}" dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/lib/libgdi.so || die
"making libgdi link failed";
 *  The die message:
 *   making libgdi link failed
 *
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if
relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/sci-geosciences/grass-6.3.0/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/sci-geosciences/grass-6.3.0/temp/environment'.
 *

My emerge --info:
emerge --info
Portage 2.2_rc1 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0,
2.6.25-tuxonice-r5 i686)
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System uname:
Linux-2.6.25-tuxonice-r5-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_T5500_@_1.66GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:03:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.2.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.62
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.25-r4
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
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/kde/4.0/env /usr/kde/4.0/share/config
/usr/kde/4.0/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/
/etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild
/etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks parallel-fetch preserve-libs sandbox sfperms strict
unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LDFLAGS=""
LINGUAS="en pl uk be de"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles
--exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dfx 3dnow 3dnowext 7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi adns
alsa amr amrnb amrr amrwb ao arts auto-completion autoipd automount avahi
bash-completion bidi bluetooth branding bzip2 c++ cairo caps cddb cdparanoia
cisco cli cpudetection cracklib crypt css cups curl daap dbus dga directfb divx
djvu dri dts dv dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread emovix enca encode exif fam fax fbcon
ffmpeg firefox flac font-server fontconfig fortran ftp gd gdbm geoip ggi gif
glibglitz gmail gmedia gnome gnutls gpg2-experimental gphoto2 gpm gsm gtk hal
htmlhandbook http hyperestraier iconv icq idn imagemagick inotify ipod ipv6
ipw3945 isdnlog java javascript jpeg jpeg2k justify kde kdrive kerberos ladspa
lame laptop latex libcaca libsamplerate libwww lilo live lm_sensors lzo mad
matroskamatrox mbrola md5sum mdnsresponder-compat midi mjpeg mmap mmx mmxext
mng modplug motif mp2 mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mplayer msn mtp mudflap
musepack musicbrainz mysql nas ncurses neXt net netbeans netboot network
network-cron networking nfs nis nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntp nvidia nvram
nvtv obex odbc ogg openal openct openexr opengl openmp openssh openvpn oss
overlays pch pcmcia pcre pcsc-lite pda pdf perl pic player plotutils plugins
pmu png portaudio pppd pulseaudio python qt-static qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime
radio rar raw readline real realmedia reflection reiser4 reiserfs rss rtc samba
sasl scanner sdl sessionskey slang slp smartcard sndfile snmp socks5 speech
speex spell spl sql sqlite sqlite3 srt sse sse2 ssl ssse3 svg svga tcpd tetex
tga theora threads tiff timidity tk tools truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd
vidix visualization vorbis wav wavpack wifi win32codecs wma wmf wmp wxwindows
x264 x86 xanim xcb xcompositexine xinerama xml xorg xpm xprint xulrunner xv
xvid xvmc yv12 zeroconf zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file
hooks                   iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi
null plug                   rate route share shm softvol"
APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm
authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host
authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir
disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info
log_config logiomem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling
status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="nikon" ELIBC="glibc"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux"
LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses
text" LINGUAS="en pl uk be de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Reproducible: Always

Heh, that was an oversight, but it also made me check again to see if there's
not a better way to specify the main link target, and also a little more
wxpython testing.  Should work fine now...

Thanks for the prompt fix!