I'm trying to install app-arch/alien-8.53, but the installation process fails with the following error: >>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-arch/alien-8.53 to / >>> checking ebuild checksums ;-) >>> checking auxfile checksums ;-) >>> checking miscfile checksums ;-) >>> checking alien_8.53.tar.gz ;-) >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking alien_8.53.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/alien-8.53/work >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/alien-8.53/work/alien ... Writing Makefile for Alien cp Alien/Package/Deb.pm blib/lib/Alien/Package/Deb.pm cp Alien/Package/Tgz.pm blib/lib/Alien/Package/Tgz.pm cp Alien/Package.pm blib/lib/Alien/Package.pm cp Alien/Package/Rpm.pm blib/lib/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm cp Alien/Package/Pkg.pm blib/lib/Alien/Package/Pkg.pm cp Alien/Package/Lsb.pm blib/lib/Alien/Package/Lsb.pm cp Alien/Package/Slp.pm blib/lib/Alien/Package/Slp.pm perl -pe ' \ $_="" if /use lib/; \ $_="our \$Version=\"8.53\";\n" \ if /VERSION_AUTOREPLACE/' alien.pl > alien Backslash found where operator expected at -e line 3, near ""our \$Version=\"8.53\";\n" \" (Missing operator before \?) Can't modify single ref constructor in scalar assignment at -e line 2, near """ if" syntax error at -e line 3, near ""our \$Version=\"8.53\";\n" \" Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. make: *** [alien] Error 255 !!! ERROR: app-arch/alien-8.53 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1527: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 930: Called src_compile alien-8.53.ebuild, line 23: Called die !!! emake failed. !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre19 Portage 2.1_pre10-r5 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18 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-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -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 /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://mirror.aiya.ru/pub/gentoo/" LANG="fi_FI.ISO-8859-1" LINGUAS="fi" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X a52 aac acpi alsa apm asf avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli crypt cups curl dga divx4linux dri dv dvd dvdread emboss encode ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gnustep gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib isdnlog jack jpeg kde ladcca lcms libg++ libwww lua mad matroska mikmod mjpeg mmap mmx motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nodrm nptl nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt quicktime readline real reflection ruby scanner sdl session sndfile spl ssl svg tcpd theora tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs xine xinerama xml2 xorg xv xvmc zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux linguas_fi userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Same error in emerging Alien 8.53 here. Portage 2.1_rc1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre19 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r1 dev-util/confcache: 0.4.2 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-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 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/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/chaos-X2/techidna-2/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://192.168.1.100/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext 7zip X X509 Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acpi akode alsa amr ao aotuv apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid asf async audiofile avi bash-completion bcp bdf berkdb bidi big-tables binfilter bitmap-fonts bittorrent bjam bl blas browserplugin bzip2 cairo canna catalogs cdda cddb cdf cdparanoia chroot cjk cli crypt cscope css cups curl daap dga dhcp directfb djbfft dlloader dmi doc dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread dynagraph eap-tls ecc edl eds elf emboss encode escreen esd etwin examples exif expat extraengine extrafilters f77 fam fame fat fbcon ffmpeg finger firefox flac fltk fontconfig foomaticdb fortran fpx ftp gcj gd gdbm ggi gif gimp gimpprint ginac glep glitz glut gnokii gnutls gopher gphoto2 gpm grammar graphviz gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal hdf5 hfs hlapi hpn http httpd icp ide idea idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib immqt-bc insecure-savers ipv6 isdnlog ithreads jack jack-tmpfs java javascript jbig jfs joystick jpeg jpeg2k justify kcal kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas kerberos kig-scripting kipi krb4 ladcca ladspa lame latex lcms ldap libcaca libclamav libedit libg++ libwww live lm_sensors logrotate lua lzo m17n-lib mad math matroska max-idx-128 md5sum mfd-rewrites mikmod mjpeg mmap mmx mmxext mng mod modplug mono motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mp4 mpeg mpi mplayer mpm-worker multiuser musepack musicbrainz mysql mzscheme nas ncurses net nethack netjack network nforce2 nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs ntlm numeric nvidia objc ocaml odbc offensive ogg openal openexr opengl oss overlays pam parse-clocks pccts pcre pda pdf pdflib perl physfs plotutils pmu png portaudio povray ppds pppd priority pyste python qhull qt quicktime rdesktop readline real recode reflection reiser4 reiserfs rle rpm rtc rtsp ruby samba sametime sample sasl scanner screen sdk sdl session sftplogging shorten shout silc skins slang slp smime sms smtp smux sndfile snmp source sox speedo speex spell spl sql sqlite sqlite3 srvdir sse sse-filters sse2 ssl stream subversion svg svga swat symlink sysfs syslog szip t1lib tcltk tcltl tcpd tetex tga theora thesaurus threads threadsonly tidy tiff timidity toolbar tos transcode translator truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts ucs2 ucs4 udev unicode upnp usb v4l v4l2 vcd vdr vidix vim vim-pager vim-with-x vlm vorbis vorbis-psy wifi win32codecs wmf wordperfect wxwindows x264 xanim xcomposite xext xface xfs xine xinerama xml xml2 xmldoclet xmms xorg xosd xpm xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yv12 zlib zvbi elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_joystick kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_vesa video_cards_fbdev video_cards_nvidia video_cards_v4l video_cards_apm" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
hi. I added alien 8.64 to portage today and it seems to work fine. please check it and if the problem persists re-open the bug. thanks
compiles here
Compiles fine for me too. Thanks much!
