emerge of clockspeed fails during test phase: ./instcheck with "/var/lib/clcckspeed: file does not exist" after some research, i figured out it is supposed to be a directory, so i mkdir'ed one; the emerge went further but failed again, at another instcheck point, with "/usr/man/cat1: file does not exist", so i also mkdir'ed it, and was able to complete the emerge ('haven't tested it yet though) emerge --info: Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-20050130, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2 .6.12-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Last Sync: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:20:01 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.2.11 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.11-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer sandbo x sfperms strict test userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.phy.olemiss.edu/mirror/gentoo http://cudlug.cudenv er.edu/gentoo http://mirror.espri.arizona.edu/gentoo http://open-systems.ufl.edu /mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo http://mirror.usu.edu/mi rrors/gentoo http://gentoo.osuos1.org http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibi blio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="" 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='/d istfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X alsa bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo caps cdparanoia cdr cjk cli crypt cups dbus directfb divx4linux dlloader dri dvdr eli bc_glibc emboss encode fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fortran ftp gcj gdbm gif gn ustep gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk hal input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ip v6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg kerberos kernel_linux ldap libcaca libg++ mad ma ilwrapper matroska matrox mikmod mmx mozilla moznoirc mp3 mpeg nas ncurses nls n ptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl png portaudio ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session sndfile spell spl ssl svg svga tcpd t est theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userlan d_GNU video_cards_fbdev video_cards_mga video_cards_vesa vorbis win32codecs xml xorg xprint xv xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC _EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
fixed in cvs - thanks for reporting! have a nice day.
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