This comment refers to the February 4, 2007 version of the document referred by the URL. The step emerge --oneshot --nodeps sys-devel/binutils did not succeed right away for me. After doing emerge --oneshot --nodeps sys-apps/texinfo emerge --oneshot --nodeps sys-devel/flex the emerge of 'binutils' succeeded. Reproducible: Always
I am following the "Gentoo Prefixed Portage Bootstrap Process for Solaris" paper a second time, after messing up on my first attempt. This time I am building the Gentoo software as an unprivileged user. I can confirm that sys-devel/flex must be emerged before binutils this time as well. As for texinfo there is no new information this time, since I have preinstalled Gnu texinfo from a binary package prior to the entire prefixed portage bootstrap exercise.
I changed the bootstrap to install binutils-2.16.1 initially, because that one doesn't need texinfo. I added flex to the instructions before binutils. Thanks!
I think maybe there can be robustness problems with specifying a particular version such as binutils-2.16. I haven't made any in-depth investigation, but I would like to contribute this observation: Some weeks ago my "prefix portage" installation became broken; all of a sudden I could no longer emerge new versions of anything. It appeared to be a Python-related problem and I could not find an easy way to fix it. So I decided to run through the entire bootstrapping sequence again. At step 1.8 (of the May 7, 2007 version of the guide) it says to emerge binutils-2.16*. This did not succeed, it terminated with a low-level error that I did not capture unfortunately. I then tried to just do 'emerge --oneshot --nodeps sys-devel/binutils', which successfully gave me a 2.17 version. There is of course the risk that my system is somehow different from a clean Solaris10 system since I have already bootstrapped the "prefix gentoo" once. It would be good to try and repeat the bootstrap procedure on a clean system and see if the binutils-2.16 problem is really an issue. I don't have the resources to do that right now though.
I'll rebootstrap on Solaris 10/x86 using the manual and see what happens.
flex is emerged before binutils texinfo is emerged between two binutils emerges. Last time this worked for me.
Good to hear. Myself I can't test, I don't have access to Solaris machines anymore.
