After making the following trivial change to the ebuild to see the full error, --- ./heroes3-1.3.1a-r1.ebuild 2005-12-17 16:11:09.000000000 +0200 +++ /usr/portage/games-strategy/heroes3/heroes3-1.3.1a-r1.ebuild 2005-10-21 21:35:50.000000000 +0300 @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ cd ${S} loki_patch --verify patch.dat - loki_patch patch.dat ${Ddir} || die "patching" + loki_patch patch.dat ${Ddir} >& /dev/null || die "patching" games_make_wrapper heroes3 ./heroes3 "${dir}" "${dir}" I get: home ~ # USE="-*" emerge heroes3 Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) games-strategy/heroes3-1.3.1a-r1 to / >>> md5 files ;-) heroes3-1.3.1a-r1.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-heroes3-1.3.1a-r1 >>> md5 src_uri ;-) heroes3-1.3.1a-cdrom-x86.run * Do you accept the terms of this license (LOKI-EULA)? [yes/no] yes >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking heroes3-1.3.1a-cdrom-x86.run to /var/tmp/portage/heroes3-1.3.1a-r1/work tar: A lone zero block at 8440 >>> Source unpacked. >>> Test phase [not enabled]: games-strategy/heroes3-1.3.1a-r1 >>> Install heroes3-1.3.1a-r1 into /var/tmp/portage/heroes3-1.3.1a-r1/image/ category games-strategy * This ebuild will need the cdrom for heroes3 * If you do not have the CD, but have the data files * mounted somewhere on your filesystem, just export * the variable CD_ROOT so that it points to the * directory containing the files. * For example: * export CD_ROOT=/mnt/cdrom * Found CD #1 root at /media/cdrecorder1 * Copying files... this may take a while... Computing MD5 sums for new uninstaller, this may take a while... ERROR: Can't find ./patchdata/heroes3.dynamic.0 !!! ERROR: games-strategy/heroes3-1.3.1a-r1 failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 72, Exitcode 3 !!! patching !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. home ~ # This is something new. The ebuild used to emerge fine some time ago. home ~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ITDNet.net/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/obelix /usr/local/portage/axxo/axxo-overlay /usr/local/portage/axxo/obelix" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac acl alsa apache2 audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cairo cdr crypt cups curl dbus directfb doc dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb gd gdbm gif glitz glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal idn imagemagick ithreads java javascript jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad mhash mikmod mmap mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pdflib perl php pic plotutils png postgres pthreads python qt quicktime readline recode sdl session sharedmem slang snmp spell sse sse2 ssl svg svga symlink tcltk tcpd tetex threads tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vcd vorbis win32codecs wmf xine xml xml2 xv xvid xvmc zlib linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS home ~ #
I have masked the latest version of loki_patch in the tree. Can you see if reverting to the current stable version of loki_patch resolves this issue for you?
After downgrading to games-util/loki_patch-20050324 the game installs and works.
Thanks... I figured it should have worked.
