######## EMERGE --INFO ############### hermes lib # emerge --info Portage 2.1_rc1-r3 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre19 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 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="i386-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -mmmx -msse -msse2 -pipe" CHOST="i386-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/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -mmmx -msse -msse2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp6.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ " 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi alsa apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt cups dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 ieee1394 imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde latex ldap libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad mikmod mime mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection sdl session sndfile spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd tetex truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vorbis wifi win32codecs xml xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_radeon video_cards_fglrx" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Post some emerge output w/ errors and reopen then...
hermes bommings-dev # emerge libtermcap-compat Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-libs/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2 to / >>> checking ebuild checksums ;-) >>> checking auxfile checksums ;-) >>> checking miscfile checksums ;-) >>> checking termtypes.tc.gz ;-) >>> checking termcap-2.0.8.tar.bz2 ;-) >>> checking libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-gentoo-0.1.tar.bz2 ;-) >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking termtypes.tc.gz to /var/tmp/portage/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/work >>> Unpacking termcap-2.0.8.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/work >>> Unpacking libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-gentoo-0.1.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/work * Applying various patches (bugfixes/updates) ... * 001_all_termcap-linuxlat.patch ... [ ok ] * 002_all_termcap-xtermchanges.patch ... [ ok ] * 003_all_termcap-utf8.patch ... [ ok ] * 004_all_termcap-xterm-X11R6.patch ... [ ok ] * 005_all_termcap-Eterm.patch ... [ ok ] * Done with patching * Applying libtermcap-compat_bcopy_fix.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying various patches (bugfixes/updates) ... * 001_all_termcap-shared.patch ... [ ok ] * 002_all_termcap-setuid.patch ... [ ok ] * 003_all_termcap-inst-no-root.patch ... [ ok ] * 004_all_termcap-compat-glibc21.patch ... [ ok ] * 005_all_termcap-xref.patch ... [ ok ] * 006_all_termcap-fix-tc.patch ... [ ok ] * 007_all_termcap-ignore-p.patch ... [ ok ] * 008_all_termcap-buffer.patch ... [ ok ] * 009_all_termcap-bufsize--needs-011.patch ... [ ok ] * 010_all_termcap-colon.patch ... [ ok ] * 011_all_termcap-AAARGH.patch ... [ ok ] * Done with patching * Applying libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-fPIC.patch ... [ ok ] >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/work/termcap-2.0.8 ... gcc -O2 -march=pentium-m -mmmx -msse -msse2 -pipe -I. -M termcap.c tparam.c version.c | \ sed -e 's,^[ ]*\(.*\.o\)[ ]*:,\1 pic/\1:,' > .depend gcc -O2 -march=pentium-m -mmmx -msse -msse2 -pipe -I. -fPIC -c termcap.c -o termcap.o gcc -O2 -march=pentium-m -mmmx -msse -msse2 -pipe -I. -fPIC -c tparam.c -o tparam.o gcc -O2 -march=pentium-m -mmmx -msse -msse2 -pipe -I. -fPIC -c version.c -o version.o ar ucvr libtermcap.a termcap.o tparam.o version.o a - termcap.o a - tparam.o a - version.o gcc -shared -o libtermcap.so.2.0.8 -Wl,-soname,libtermcap.so.2 termcap.o tparam.o version.o -lc makeinfo termcap.texi --output=termcap.info >>> Source compiled. >>> Test phase [not enabled]: sys-libs/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2 >>> Install libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2 into /var/tmp/portage/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/image/ category sys-libs if [ /var/tmp/portage/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/image/ = "/" ]; then \ mkdir -p /usr/lib /usr/info /usr/include /etc /lib; \ fi if [ /var/tmp/portage/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/image/ = "/" ]; then \ cp termcap.src /etc/termcap; \ #chown root:root /etc/termcap; \ fi if [ -f /var/tmp/portage/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/image//lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 ]; then \ mkdir -p /var/tmp/portage/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/image//lib/backup; \ mv /var/tmp/portage/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/image//lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 \ /var/tmp/portage/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/image//lib/backup/libtermcap.so.2.0.8.$$; \ fi cp libtermcap.so.2.0.8 /var/tmp/portage/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/image//lib if [ /var/tmp/portage/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/image/ = "/" ]; then \ if [ -x /sbin/ldconfig -o -x /etc/ldconfig ]; then \ ldconfig; \ fi; \ cp -f libtermcap.a /usr/lib; \ rm -f /lib/libtermcap.so; \ rm -f /usr/lib/libtermcap.so; \ ln -s /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 /usr/lib/libtermcap.so; \ cp -f termcap.h /usr/include; \ cp termcap.info* /usr/info; \ chown root:root \ /usr/info/termcap.info* \ /usr/lib/libtermcap.a \ /usr/lib/libtermcap.so \ /usr/include/termcap.h; \ else \ cp -f libtermcap.a /var/tmp/portage/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/image//lib; \ rm -f /var/tmp/portage/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/image//lib/libtermcap.so; \ ln -s /var/tmp/portage/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/image//lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 \ /var/tmp/portage/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/image//lib/libtermcap.so; \ cp -f termcap.h /var/tmp/portage/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/image//include; \ fi >>> Completed installing libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2 into /var/tmp/portage/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/image/ man: strip: i386-pc-linux-gnu-strip --strip-unneeded lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 >>> Merging sys-libs/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2 to / --- /etc/ >>> /etc/termcap --- /lib/ >>> /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 >>> /lib/libtermcap.so.2 -> libtermcap.so.2.0.8 --- /usr/ --- /usr/share/ --- /usr/share/doc/ --- /usr/share/doc/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/ >>> /usr/share/doc/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/README.gz >>> /usr/share/doc/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/ChangeLog.gz >>> Safely unmerging already-installed instance... --- !mtime obj /usr/share/doc/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/README.gz --- !mtime obj /usr/share/doc/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2/ChangeLog.gz --- !mtime obj /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 --- !mtime sym /lib/libtermcap.so.2 --- cfgpro obj /etc/termcap --- !empty dir /usr/share/doc/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2 --- !empty dir /usr/share/doc --- !empty dir /usr/share --- !empty dir /usr --- !empty dir /lib --- !empty dir /etc >>> Original instance of package unmerged safely. >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... >>> sys-libs/libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r2 merged. >>> No packages selected for removal by clean. >>> Auto-cleaning packages... >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. * IMPORTANT: 11 config files in /etc need updating. * Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files.
There are no errors, completely normal merge. Don't see what's your problem here; we won't be installing libtermcap.a (see Bug 4411 and Changelog).
So, it is normal to get it in stable version and not in unstable...ok.