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Bug 88648 - upgrade to m4 requires broken version of help2man
Summary: upgrade to m4 requires broken version of help2man
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: PPC64 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: ppc64 architecture team
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Reported: 2005-04-10 14:42 UTC by Brent Baude (RETIRED)
Modified: 2005-04-11 07:04 UTC (History)
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Description Brent Baude (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-04-10 14:42:33 UTC
On a recent portage sync and emerge -pu world, an upgrade to coreutils was required.  The upgrades adds a new package help2man.

emerge -pv coreutils

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.01-r1  3 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/help2man-1.33.1  +nls 73 kB 
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r5 [5.2.1-r2] -acl -build* -debug +nls* (-selinux) -static (-uclibc) 4,260 kB 

This version of help2man gets a permission denied error when emerging.  A newer version of help2man (help2man-1.35.1) is available in portage but is ~ppc64.  Perhaps the easiest thing to do here is unmask the newer version of help2man.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge sync
2. emerge -pu world (which includes coreutils)
3.
Comment 1 Brent Baude (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-04-10 15:58:27 UTC
I wasnt able to replicate this on a different system.  The make profiles do differ on each.  Should I post them?
Comment 2 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-04-11 03:51:50 UTC
yes, please post them.

I cannot reporduce this error either. does the newer version fix that issue for you? That newer version works for me and I would mark it stable if it fixed your problem.
Comment 3 Brent Baude (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-04-11 06:02:31 UTC
Yes, the newer version of help2man emerged perfectly.  So the newer one imho could be marked stable.

Here's the make.conf for the failing system:

ARCH="ppc64"

CHOST="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu"

CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mtune=970 -mcpu=970"
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc64"

STAGE1_USE="unicode"
GRP_STAGE23_USE="unicode ipv6 pam tcpd readline nls ssl gpm perl python berkdb ncurses"

USE="unicode pam berkdb bitmap-fonts gif jpeg nls ncurses perl png ppc64 python readline ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts zlib"

FEATURES="autoconfig sandbox sfperms"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/"
Comment 4 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-04-11 07:04:31 UTC
I don't have any problems using that newer version. Bumped to stable.

P.S.: remoded tgall as he also gets mail from ppc64@g.o (maybe a little bit late..)