Bug 14922 – emerge gconf-1.2.1 crashes not finding libpopt.la

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description john read 2003-02-01 11:59:15 UTC]

in a new installation with first "emerge gnome", the gconf-1.2.1 compile crashes
due to "libpopt.la missing" with a directory pointing to the portage build tree.
/usr/lib/libpopt.la is however present. The same error comes with 1.0.8 and 2.2.0.
I have experimented with 

Reproducible: Always
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Portage 2.0.46-r9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.1, glibc-2.3.1-r3)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm arts avi crypt encode gif gpm imlib java libg++ libwww
mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses oggvorbis qtmt quicktime sdl spell xml2 xmms xv
zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline guile tcpd pam perl python opengl X acpi bonobo
cups evo imap jpeg ldap maildir mozilla gb libgda gtk gnome pda pdflib png sasl
qt ssl truetype tetex nls -svga alsa -kde"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2003-02-01 16:22:42 UTC]

give us some ouput

[Comment 2 john read 2003-02-02 07:22:08 UTC]

the error reported through the errout:

grep: /var/tmp/portage/popt-1.7/image/usr/lib/libpopt.la: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /var/tmp/portage/popt-1.7/image/usr/lib/libpopt.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: `/var/tmp/portage/popt-1.7/image/usr/lib/libpopt.la' is not a valid libtool archive

by linking the/usr/lib/libpopt.la to the /var/... directory the emerge finishes successfully.

john

[Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) 2003-02-02 07:43:00 UTC]

Hmm might be a libtool problem, but that should be covered by the gnome2 eclass.

[Comment 4 foser (RETIRED) 2003-02-17 08:24:11 UTC]

looks like a local problem of some sort to me, libpopt obviously installed incorrectly. If you can reproduce it reopen.