While emerging findutils during Stage 2 of the install process, einstall coughs up the following hairball and dies. /bin/install: skipping file `find', as it was replaced while being copied make[3]: *** [install-binPROGRAMS] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/findutils-4.1.7-r4/work/findutils-4.1.7/find' make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/findutils-4.1.7-r4/work/findutils-4.1.7/find' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/findutils-4.1.7-r4/work/findutils-4.1.7/find' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 !!! ERROR: sys-apps/findutils-4.1.7-r4 failed. !!! Function einstall, Line 343, Exitcode 2 !!! einstall failed Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install almost exactly as described in the Installation Instructions up to "emerge system" in step 12. 2. Go to work. 3. Come home; find error Actual Results: error as described in details Expected Results: completed installing findutils and gone on to the next step !!! No gcc found. You probably need to 'source /etc/profile' to update !!! the environment of this terminal and possibly other terminals also. Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, [unavailable], glibc-2.3.1-r4,2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-xfs-r2 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes) GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/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="oss 3dnow arts avi cups encode foomaticdb gif gtk imlib jpeg kde gnome libg++ mad mikmod motif mpeg nls oggvorbis pdflib png qt quicktime sdl slang spell svga truetype xml2 xmms xv berkdb X opengl apm cdr crypt doc ethereal gd gdbm gpm ipv6 java jikes kerberos krb4 ldap libwww mbox mmx ncurses pam perl prelude python readline samba sasl snmp socks5 ssl tcltk tcpd zeo zlib x86" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe -malign-double -mmmx" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe -malign-double -mmmx" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
This seems to have been fixed as of the 1.4 release. I was using the 1.4-rc4 LiveCD. Woot.
closing with comment #1
