Bug 91712 – howl ebuild fails as part of `emerge gnome-light`

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Paul Tourville 2005-05-06 10:00:01 UTC]

Emerge of gnome-light fails on net-misc/howl-0.9.6-r2 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge gnome-light (or emerge howl)
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
<snip>
/usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:356: error: parse error before '}' token
Posix/posix_interface.c: In function `sw_network_interface_link_status':
Posix/posix_interface.c:238: error: storage size of `edata' isn't known
make[4]: *** [posix_interface.lo] Error 1
make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../include
-I../../../include/ -I../ -O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -c
NotOSX/notosx_mdns_stub.c -MT notosx_mdns_stub.lo -MD -MP -MF
.deps/notosx_mdns_stub.TPlo -o notosx_mdns_stub.o >/dev/null 2>&1
mv -f .libs/notosx_mdns_stub.lo notosx_mdns_stub.lo
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/howl-0.9.6-r2/work/howl-0.9.6/src/lib/howl'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/howl-0.9.6-r2/work/howl-0.9.6/src/lib/howl'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/howl-0.9.6-r2/work/howl-0.9.6/src/lib'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/howl-0.9.6-r2/work/howl-0.9.6/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

!!! ERROR: net-misc/howl-0.9.6-r2 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 38, Exitcode 2
!!! emake failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.


Expected Results:  
Successful installation of howl and gnome-light

# emerge --info
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 11 2005, 17:34:27)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    [Not Present]
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.ri.thesearchagency.com/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 S3TC X alsa apache2 apm arts artswrapperuid avi bidi bindist
bitmap-fonts cdparanoia crypt cups curl curlwrappers dnd doc dv dvb dvd dvdr
dvdread emacs emboss encode exif faad fbcon fbdev foomaticdb fortran freedts gd
gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 hal hbci howl httpclient imagemagick imlib innodb ipv6
javascript jikes jpeg kde libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad mailwrapper mikmod motif
mp3 mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam parse-clocks pcre pda pdflib perl
php pic png posix postgresql ppds qt quicktime radeon readline rtc sdl session
spell sse ssl stroke svga tcpd threads tidy tiff transcode truetype
truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts usb userlocales vhosts xft xml xml2 xmms xosd
xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-05-06 10:09:08 UTC]

emerge sync, re-emerge linux-headers and try again. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87513 ***