Bugzilla Bug 36526

Trying to install app-emacs/session fails with the following message.
To fix it, I created /root/.emacs-thumbs manually. app-emacs/thumbs was installed as package 8 of 12, just before this one, so probably this wouldn't have given errors if I'd started emacs in the meanwhile, but since I didn't, it borked.

>>> emerge (9 of 12) app-emacs/session-2.1c to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) session-2.1c.tar.gz
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking session-2.1c.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/session-2.1c/work
>>> Source unpacked.
Creating directory: permission denied, /root/.emacs-thumbs

!!! ERROR: app-emacs/session-2.1c failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 22, Exitcode 255
!!! (no error message)

I cannot duplicate the error you reported. I emerged session-2.1c and
session-2.2a (not committed yet) without any problem. Could you supply
your `emerge info` please?

I don't actually think the problem is with session, I think it is with thumbs.
I see the ebuild of session runs emacs to install the session script. I think
emacs just returned 0 because the dir /root/.emacs-thumbs didn't exist. So it's
app-emacs/thumbs that needs some kind of fix. Perhaps automatically create this
dir? Anyway: here's my emerge info:

Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.6.0)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.0 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 oss avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gpm gtk2 jpeg libg++ libwww
mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib
alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline svga tcltk X sdl tcpd pam ssl perl python imlib
oggvorbis gtk motif opengl scanner 3dnow acl acpi acpi4linux apache2 cdr dillo
dvd dvdr emacs emacs-w3 evo ext-png ext-zlib faad fam fbcon ffmpeg freetype gd
gd-external gstreamer imagemagick ipv6 java leim lirc mbox md5sum mmx mpeg4
nocd nptl nvidia offensive openal parse-clocks ppds samba speedo sse threads
tiff transcode type1 unicode usb v4l videos wmf Xaw3d xine xvid -apm -arts -kde
-gnome -spell -qt"

okay, thanks. I'm able to reproduce the bug after I emerged app-emacs/thumbs
and I fixed it in both session-2.1c and session-2.2a.