The prefix is not used in some operations, for example /etc/portage instead of ${EPREFIX}/etc/portage. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge "=sys-devel/crossdev-0.9.18-r8" 2. crossdev -v --target <target> Actual Results: crossdev fails Expected Results: crossdev works $ crossdev -v --target mips-unknown-linux-uclibc -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Host Portage ARCH: x86 * Target Portage ARCH: mips * Target System: mips-unknown-linux-uclibc * Stage: 4 (C/C++ compiler) * binutils: binutils-[latest] * gcc: gcc-[latest] * headers: linux-headers-[latest] * libc: uclibc-[latest] * PORTDIR_OVERLAY: /prefix/usr/local/portage * PORT_LOGDIR: /prefix/var/log/portage * PKGDIR: /prefix/usr/portage/packages/cross/mips-unknown-linux-uclibc * PORTAGE_TMPDIR: /prefix/var/tmp/cross/mips-unknown-linux-uclibc _ - ~ - _ - ~ - _ - ~ - _ - ~ - _ - ~ - _ - ~ - _ - mkdir: cannot create directory `/etc/portage': Permission denied /prefix/usr/sbin/crossdev: line 538: /etc/portage/categories: No such file or directory /prefix/usr/sbin/crossdev: line 540: cd: /etc/portage: No such file or directory [...] $ emerge --info Portage 2.2.00.10347-prefix (default-prefix/linux/x86, gcc-4.2.4, unavailable, 2.6.24-18-generic i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-18-generic i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz Timestamp of tree: Unknown app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r4 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61-r01.1 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18.50.0.7 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r04.3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86-linux" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=i686 -mtune=prescott" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=i686 -mtune=prescott" DISTDIR="/prefix/usr/portage/distfiles" EPREFIX="/prefix" FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks parallel-fetch preserve-libs sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="" PKGDIR="/prefix/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="/prefix/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/prefix/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/prefix/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.prefix.freens.org/gentoo-portage-prefix" USE="X cracklib cscope iconv ipv6 midi mudflap ncurses nls prefix readline ssl unicode x86 zlib" 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" 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="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 157551 [details, diff] crossdev-eprefix.diff This patch solves the problem, and crossdev works with it.
Thank you very much, I applied your patch.
