As subject: the emerge failed because applying python-2.5.1-darwin9.patch failed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge --sync 2. emerge -avND world Actual Results: python fails to build. Expected Results: python should install :-) rachel@yenaldooshi ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.2.00.9894-prefix (default-prefix/darwin/macos/10.5/x86, gcc-4.0.1, unavailable, 9.2.2 i386) ================================================================= System uname: 9.2.2 i386 i386 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:23:51 +0000 distcc 2.18.5-Apple.1 powerpc-apple-darwin9.0 (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-lang/python: 2.5.1-r5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61-r01.1 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r04.2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86-macos" CBUILD="i686-apple-darwin9" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=prescott" CHOST="i686-apple-darwin9" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=prescott" DISTDIR="/Gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles" EPREFIX="/Gentoo" FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer nostrip parallel-fetch preserve-libs sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/Gentoo/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/Gentoo/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/Gentoo/usr/portage" SYNC="svn://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/alt/trunk/prefix-overlay" USE="aqua bash-completion coreaudio cracklib expat gnutls ipv6 midi mmx mmxext ncurses nls objc objc++ prefix readline sse sse2 ssl unicode vim-syntax x86-macos zlib" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="Darwin" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="Darwin" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Created attachment 150276 [details] the patch-nnnn.out file the error told me to attach to the bug :-)
can you try commenting out the darwin9 patch (conditional) and see if python by chance just compiles without it?
(In reply to comment #2) > can you try commenting out the darwin9 patch (conditional) and see if python by > chance just compiles without it? > Yes it does. No apparent problems.
ok, I removed the patch, thanks!