Bug 131600 – g-cpan fails to read /etc/make.conf correctly

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ed Catmur 2006-04-28 13:01:39 UTC]

# g-cpan -i Audio::MP4
 * g-cpan: You don't have permission to work in any of the portage overlays.
 * g-cpan: Please run g-cpan as a user with sufficient permissions.

# emerge --info | grep OVERLAY
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/srv/gentoo/trees/bmg-main /srv/gentoo/trees/dangtopia /srv/gentoo/trees/gnome-experimental /srv/gentoo/trees/lila-artwork /srv/gentoo/trees/gentopia /srv/gentoo/trees/kernel-sources /srv/gentoo/trees/auto-unmask /srv/gentoo/trees/catmur.co.uk"

# ls -dl /srv/gentoo/trees/catmur.co.uk
drwxr-xr-x 50 root root 4096 2006-04-25 17:38 /srv/gentoo/trees/catmur.co.uk/

# whoami
root

[Comment 1 Ed Catmur 2006-04-28 13:19:47 UTC]

Worked it out - g-cpan fails to parse /etc/make.conf properly if PORTDIR_OVERLAY is over multiple lines. Putting the g-cpan overlay on the first line works, or use this patch:

--- ./g-cpan    2006/04/28 20:04:30     1.1
+++ ./g-cpan    2006/04/28 20:14:04
@@ -674,6 +674,11 @@ sub get_globals {
         next if ( substr( $line, 0, 1 ) eq '#' );
         chomp $line;

+        while ( substr ($line, -1, 1) eq '\\' ) {
+            chop $line;
+            $line .= <CONF>;
+            chomp $line;
+        }
         $line =~ tr/"'//d;    # Remove quotes to be safe

         # Now replacing defaults, if other values are set

[Comment 2 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) 2006-06-13 14:50:19 UTC]

this should be completely fixed in 0.14 (because we rewrote the whole thing). can you still confirm?

[Comment 3 Ed Catmur 2006-06-13 15:18:51 UTC]

Is fixed in 0.14.0_rc2, yes.