Bug 23080 – Trying to emerge system. app-text/sgml-common failed. Couldn't find install-sh in ./ ../ ../../. dependancy problem?

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Royce 2003-06-18 20:49:09 UTC]

So I went into the work directory (/var/tmp/portage/sgml*/work) and found that
the sym link, install-sh, points to /usr/share/automake/install-sh, but automake
hasn't been installed yet.  So I emerged automake and then emerged
system...Seems to work now

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Get a stage 2 gentoo install
2.emerge system
3.wait until it breaks

Actual Results:  
Something like:
"failed to emerge app-text/sgml-common.  Couldn't find install-sh in ./ ../ ../../"

Expected Results:  
Emerged app-text/sgml-common

[Comment 1 Royce 2003-06-19 18:45:00 UTC]

Ack!  I forgot version number - Sorry!!

This was sgml-common-0.6.3-r3

[Comment 2 Alexandre ROMAN 2003-06-19 23:50:24 UTC]

I started installing yesterday and I encountered exactly the same problem. The only way to get rid of this error was to emerge automake.
Thanks to Royce for the fix !

[Comment 3 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2003-09-07 23:23:36 UTC]

okay, we can add automake to the depends of sgml-common, if it really does need it.

[Comment 4 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2003-09-12 23:31:11 UTC]

Fixed in portage now, versions -r3 and -r4 should depend on automake. Thanks for reporting.