Bug 17753 – Openbox-2.3.0 ebuild doesn't work

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Patrick Borjesson 2003-03-18 10:30:48 UTC]

Emerging of openbox-2.3.0 fails after a series of errors relating the file Translation.m. The 
same errors occur when trying to emerge commonbox-utils but it seems to be able to ignore 
those error and continue the compilation, but not so when compiling openbox.

[Comment 1 Patrick Borjesson 2003-03-18 10:31:56 UTC]

Created attachment 9560 [details]
Log of compilation

[Comment 2 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-03-18 12:01:40 UTC]

quick work around
USE="-nls" emerge openbox

please paste
#emerge info

[Comment 3 Patrick Borjesson 2003-03-18 17:01:48 UTC]

Here comes printout from 'emerge info': 
 
Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.2-r0) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo 
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config 
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config 
/usr/share/config" 
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="/usr/local/portage" 
USE="x86 apm cups encode kde libg++ mikmod mpeg nls quicktime xmms gdbm 
berkdb slang svga tcpd libwww perl python gtk qt motif cdr 3dfx 3dnow -alsa apache2 
-arts avi crypt dga -esd gif -gnome gpm gtk2 imlib java jikes jpeg junit mmx ncurses 
oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib png postgres readline sdl spell ssl tcltk tiff truetype usb 
voodoo3 X xml2 xv zlib" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe" 
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe" 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
FEATURES="sandbox ccache" 

[Comment 4 Ajay Sharma 2003-03-19 10:15:04 UTC]

I had the exact same problem, adding -nls to my USE flags is a workaround for the problem as described by Martin Holzer in Comment #2.

[Comment 5 Michael Leuchtenburg 2003-03-31 20:44:18 UTC]

Another workaround for this appears to be setting LC_ALL before building.

export LC_ALL="en_US"
emerge openbox

This works for me on my recently built ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" system.

Interestingly, this appears to be a problem only on systems with glibc 2.3.2. On a system (not ~x86) with sys-libs/glibc-2.3.1-r4, openbox-2.3.0 merges fine. It still reports the "invalid character: message ignored" errors, but they do not stop the build. That was on a Gentoo system with nls set and LC_ALL not set. The same thing happened on a Debian system with glibc 2.2.5 (aka libc6 2.2.5-11.1, in their versioning system).

[Comment 6 Matt Keadle 2003-05-09 17:06:13 UTC]

glibc 2.3.2 and nls aren't playing nice with the boxes it seems. use the fixes above and you'll be set. closing this till there's some resolution.

[Comment 7 Brandon Hale (RETIRED) 2003-10-30 06:22:21 UTC]

Seems to have been reopened in the bugzilla move, closing