Bug 263101 – Failed to emerge ncurses-5.7 while bootstrapping Prefix Portage

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo/Alt

[Description Rabbe Fogelholm 2009-03-20 09:13:01 UTC]

At the `emerge -e system' step the following occurred:

[31;01m*[0m Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE!  Value for $EPATCH_SOURCE is:
 [31;01m*[0m 
 [31;01m*[0m   /local/scratch/nightly/2009-03-20/usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses/files/ncurses-5.7-Makefile.patch
 [31;01m*[0m   ( ncurses-5.7-Makefile.patch )

 [31;01m*[0m ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.7 failed:
 [31;01m*[0m   Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE!
 [31;01m*[0m 
 [31;01m*[0m Call stack:
 [31;01m*[0m               ebuild.sh:  48: <call src_compile>
 [31;01m*[0m             environment:2546: <call do_compile '--without-ada'>
 [31;01m*[0m             environment: 672: <call epatch '/local/scratch/nightly/2009-03-20/usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses/files/ncurses-5.7-Makefile.patch'>
 [31;01m*[0m             environment:1168:                 die "Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE!";
 [31;01m*[0m 
 [31;01m*[0m If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.

>>> Failed to emerge sys-libs/ncurses-5.7, Log file:

Let me know if more details are needed.

[Comment 1 Fabian Groffen 2009-03-20 15:02:29 UTC]

oops, wrong patch name, sorry!  Should be corrected now, will take an hour or so to propagate to the rsync mirrors.

[Comment 2 Rabbe Fogelholm 2009-03-22 10:57:32 UTC]

Verified, bootstrapping succeeds again since 2009-03-21.