Bug 20167

Summary:	bootstrap.sh fails compile of portage due to symlinks
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) <wolf31o2>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) <carpaski>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-04-29 08:41:57 UTC

If the /usr partition is created under a different mount point and symlinked to
rather than being directly under the root filesystem, the symlinks in /usr/lib
will no longer point to their proper counterparts in /lib.  This is due to the
links being relative links rather than absolute links.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Follow installation instructions through first 8 steps, creating the usr
partition under another mount point, with a symlink in the root pointing to it
(eg. ln -sf /data/usr /usr)
2. emerge sync && scripts/bootstrap.sh
Actual Results:  
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/../../../../i586-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
cannot find -ldl

Expected Results:  
Portage should have compiled properly

Changing the symbolic links from pointing to ../../lib/libraryname to
/lib/libraryname solves this problem.

Comment 1 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-20 21:43:43 UTC

forwarding to the portage team since it is more their area of responsibility

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-10-30 19:36:10 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55620 ***