When I try to emerge chemtool-1.6, the files that should be installed with the ' make DESTDIR="${D}" install || die "make install failed"' line, do not get installed. I get no errors, and in fact, from the output of make install, it looks like the process actually works! If I do 'make install' by hand, the files do get installed correctly. This is very strange, and I have absolutly no idea what is going wrong. A copy of my emerge can be found at http://pals.cwru.edu/~bgo/chemtool-bug.html . I added a '-v' to /bin/install in the makefile in hopes of getting more useful information. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
I am not able to reproduce your bug. Please try executing the steps seperately ebuild /path/to/ebuild compile ebuild /path/to/ebuild install and then check the contents of the portage temp directory. I wonder if those files are not copied there or if they are not found there when merging...
Okay, I've just looked at this again and found the problem. The ebuild is buggy for people who don't use kde. In src_install() there are the following lines: if ! use kde; then rm -rf ${D}/${KDEDIR} fi Since I don't have kde, ${KDEDIR} is undefined. Therefore the above line amounts to rm -rf ${D}/ , which deletes everything that 'make install' just put in there. I think that a check for $KDEDIR, like if [ -z "${KDEDIR}" ]; then KDEDIR=boguskde; fi at the beginning of the ebuild would fix the problem. Hmmm, I just looked at environment.bz2 in the build-info directory, and I see a KDEDIRS=/usr, should there maybe be an S on the end of KDEDIR, or is there something wrong with my environment?
Ouch. Bad mistake by me. Just saying "I want KDE support" doesn't mean "I have KDE"... No, KDEDIR was just fine for people who are using KDE, both variables are set for them (KDEDIR=current version, KDEDIRS=other places to look for stuff) - please retry after next sync if it works for you.
Works for me now, Thanks.
