Bugzilla Bug 69066

Well sorta solved, so I figured out that cracklib wasn't being built with
libcrack.a because of my "-pam" in $USE.  But for some dumb reason pam was
still trying to build itself.  So I reset use to include pam (actually removed
"-pam") and then re-emerged cracklib and then emerged sys-libs/pam-0.77. 
Unfortunate that Gentoo requires pam to work.

/djb

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Busby [mailto:busby@edoceo.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 12:58 PM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] emerge system error 
> 
> 
> Here's more of my error message
> 
> gcc: //usr/lib/libcrack.a No such file or directory 
> pam_cracklib.so error 1
> 
> sys-libs/pam-0.77 failed
> function src_compile line 198 exitcode 2
> pam build failed
> 
> So firstly why does emerge system want to install pam when I 
> said "-pam" in $USE?  Secondly where is my missing libcrack.a 
> file coming from? And why is it missing, shouldn't portage 
> know I need libcrack.a around before trying to merge the unwanted pam?
> 
> If someone has _any_ idea I would appreciate any response or 
> clue however small. This is the second experience with Linux 
> for one of my bank customers and I'd like it to go smooth as 
> they are a strict MS shop at this time. 
> 
> /djb
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Busby [mailto:busby@edoceo.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 11:31 AM
> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > Subject: [gentoo-user] emerge system error 
> > 
> > 
> > I'm trying to `emerge system` and my use flags have "-pam" in
> > them. emerge system is trying to install sys-libs/pam-0.77 or 
> > some such.  To top it all off when installing pam it chokes 
> > and I get a build error on line 198 error 2.  I don't have 
> > ssh to the machine so I can't grab the text at this moment.  
> > Why is it trying to install pam?  I said "-pam" in my use 
> > flags.  How can I make this thing skip pam, I don't want it I 
> > just want plain login functionality or do I _need_ pam like I 
> > _need_ bash
> > 
> > /djb
> > 
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Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Starting from LiveCD stage1 or 2 set USE to include "-pam" then try emerge
system

Actual Results:  
It failed looking for /usr/lib/libcrack.a when building pam cause cracklib
didn't build libcrack.a when there was "-pam"

Expected Results:  
Not built pam!

shadow is in the system target so i've updated it to require pam / pam-login if
the user has USE=pam

this means i've also updated the base profile to not include pam and pam-login
anymore