On some ebuilds (such as dev-php/mod_php-4.3.2), when performing an operation such as emerge -f, ebuild config, etc on it will result in the message: /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 27: return: false: numeric argument required This does not cause the operation to fail. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -f dev-php/mod_php-4.3.2 Actual Results: Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-php/mod_php-4.3.2 to / >>> Previously fetched file: php-4.3.2.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-) /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 27: return: false: numeric argument required Expected Results: Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-php/mod_php-4.3.2 to / >>> Previously fetched file: php-4.3.2.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-) I am currently installing packages in a chroot, but that should not affect this. Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20 i686 Celeron (Coppermine) GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" 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="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi cups gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib p ng quicktime spell xml2 xmms xv gdbm berkdb slang readline arts svga tcltk java guile sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl python esd imlib qt motif opengl mozilla cdr X gtk -gnome alsa kde crypt emacs encode ipv6 mmx oggvorbis perl truetype zlib" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
fixed in cvs !@ php guys: this may change the way the eclass operated ... ;D http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/eclass/php.eclass.diff?r1=1.46&r2=1.47
*** Bug 22829 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Thanks vapier, it was a glitch on my part to use the old way of checking that I did.