After installing portage on OS X 10.4.1 (Tiger) and running emerge --sync the first time, emerge system fails. This is being discussed at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-348982.html A work around the problem is posted there also. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run the installer for Portage in OS X 10.4.1 (Tiger) and follow directions for finalizing the install 2.emerge --sync 3.emerge system Actual Results: >>> Completed installing sed-4.1.4 into /var/tmp/portage/sed-4.1.4/image/ >>> Merging sys-apps/sed-4.1.4 to / --- /bin/ >>> /bin/sed --- /usr/ --- /usr/bin/ --- /usr/share/ --- /usr/share/doc/ --- /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4/ >>> /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4/AUTHORS.gz >>> /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4/BUGS.gz >>> /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4/ChangeLog.gz --- /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4/examples/ >>> /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4/examples/dos2unix.gz >>> /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4/examples/unix2dos.gz >>> /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4/NEWS.gz >>> /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4/README-alpha.gz >>> /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4/README.boot.gz >>> /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4/README.gz >>> /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4/THANKS.gz >>> /usr/share/doc/sed.html --- /usr/share/info/ >>> /usr/share/info/sed.info.gz --- /usr/share/man/ --- /usr/share/man/man1/ >>> /usr/share/man/man1/gsed.1.gz !!! failed to properly create symlink: !!! /usr/bin/gsed -> /bin/gsed !!! [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/bin/gsed' !!! Failed to move file. !!! /usr/bin/gsed -> /bin/gsed I am using an iBook G4 with 768MB RAM. Genes-iBook:/Users/gene root# emerge info !!! Relying on the shell to locate gcc, this may break !!! DISTCC, installing gcc-config and setting your current gcc !!! profile will fix this Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-darwin/macos/10.4, gcc-4.0.0, libsystem-7.1-r0, 8.1.0 Power Macintosh) =============================================================== == System uname: 8.1.0 Power Macintosh powerpc macos-20041118 Python: [2.3.5 (#1, Mar 20 2005, 20:38:20)] distcc 2.0.1-zeroconf powerpc-apple-darwin7.0 (protocol 1) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: [Not Present] sys-devel/automake: [Not Present] sys-devel/binutils: [Not Present] sys-devel/libtool: [Not Present] virtual/os-headers: 7.1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc-macos" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -pipe -mpowerpc-gfxopt" CHOST="powerpc-apple-darwin" 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/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -pipe -mpowerpc-gfxopt" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache collision-protect distlocks sfperms strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/ gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc aim altivec bluetooth cdr dvd emboss ethereal hal howl ieee1394 msn php ppc-macos qt samba ssl usb wifi yahoo zeroconf userland_Darwin kernel_Darwin elibc_Darwin" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Fixed in CVS. My apologies.
(In reply to comment #1) > Fixed in CVS. My apologies. Thank you for fixing so fast!