I've had this problem for quite awhile, and it keeps showing up on every drop of sys-apps/man. emerge sys-apps/man with USE="nls" places a non-executable file as /usr/bin/man Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.USE="nls" emerge man 2./usr/bin/man 3. Actual Results: $ man man -bash: /usr/bin/man: Permission denied I've had this problem for quite a while. I believe the bug occurs in the install phase of the Makefile (specifically the make install in the msgs directory). The "man" executable in .../work/../src directory is okay after an ebuild compile, but the file that is moved into the .../image/usr/bin directory loses it's executable bit and is not even an executable. pwd /tmp/portage/sys-apps/man-1.6e-r3/image/usr/bin bin # ls -l total 68 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1786 Apr 19 12:37 apropos -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5559 Apr 19 12:37 man -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 409 Apr 19 12:37 man2dvi -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 45824 Apr 19 12:37 man2html lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 19 12:37 manpath -> man -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1784 Apr 19 12:37 whatis bin # ./man -su: ./man: Permission denied bin # chmod +x man bin # ./man -su: ./man: cannot execute binary file ===================== emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19.7Local i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19.7Local i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:30:08 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r5 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r3, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.15-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer nomirror sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://twmlinux.raleigh.ibm.com/gentoo" LINGUAS="en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j3" 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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/porttmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/ibm-internal /usr/portage/local/layman/enlightenment" SYNC="rsync://twmlinux.raleigh.ibm.com/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl alsa apm audacious audiofile bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cddb cdparanoia cdr clamav cli cracklib crypt cscope cups dcraw directfb dri dvd dvdread fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 hardened iconv imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog javascript jbig jpeg libg++ libwww logrotate mad mbox midi mikmod mime mmx motif mp3 mpeg mplayer ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin opengl oss pam pcre pdf perl png postfix pppd python quicktime readline reflection sdl session sharedmem smp sndfile sockets sox spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vim-syntax x86 xinetd xorg xpm xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 fbdev" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I'm using sys-apps/man wíth USE=nls with no problems.
I believe the problem might be related to either LANG="en_US" or LC_ALL="en_US" (I haven't dug that deep into the config / makefiles) Here is where the error is being introduced.. USE="nls" ebuild man-1.6e-r3.ebuild install > /tmp/ebuild.err then selecting some lines from the /tmp/ebuild.err .... make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/man-1.6e-r3/work/man-1.6e/man/sl' make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/man-1.6e-r3/work/man-1.6e/man' cd msgs; make install make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/man-1.6e-r3/work/man-1.6e/msgs' sh ./inst.sh "??" "/usr/bin/%N" mkdir -p /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/man-1.6e-r3/image//usr/bin *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# ERROR HERE *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# install -c -m 644 mess.bg.cat /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/man-1.6e-r3/image//usr/bin/man *#*#*#*#*#*#* this is repeated for each of the mess.xx.cat files. This is overwriting /usr/bin/man
post the full build output as an attachment by running `emerge man >& log` ... i use en_US on my machine w/out a problem
Created attachment 116771 [details] Output of USE="nls" emerge man >/tmp/man.log
Seems that you have set NLSPATH to wrong value. What is the output of `env | grep NLSPATH`? Try `NLSPATH="" emerge man`.
Yes -- I did have a stray NLSPATH set (I had at onetime an app that required NLSPATH to be set -- app has since changed and doesn't need it set anymore -- so on my system at least I can safely unset NLSPATH). Setting NLSPATH to "" does correct the install problem. One suggestion if having NLSPATH set is going to cause the building of man to have problems, a QA check might be helpful in the ebuild to flag it. Thanks for the help.
thanks Peter, doubt i would have caught that without spending a huge amount of time on it ... man-1.6e-r3 now unsets NLSPATH
