154777 2006-11-11 02:24 0000 app-text/ghostscript-gnu-8.55: sed: can't read src/Makefile.in: Too many levels of symbolic links 2006-11-17 12:49:07 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Printing 2006.1 All Linux RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 askwar@digitalprojects.com printing@gentoo.org askwar@digitalprojects.com 2006-11-11 02:24:50 0000 [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 genstef@gentoo.org 2006-11-17 12:49:07 0000 thanks, I fixed that in the code by moving the linking around a bit.