Bug 30898 – mserver ebuild fails because of errno problem

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jonathan Rogers 2003-10-11 04:09:47 UTC]

I merged the ebuild "net-dialup/mserver-0.5.5-r1" and attempted to start the
mserver daemon, only to discover that the executable didn't exist. I merged it
again and noticed that the build phase had failed, but the ebuild hadn't
noticed, but had merged anyway.

I dug a little deeper and discovered that the build failed because one of the C
files had "extern int errno;" instead of "#include <errno.h>". Apparently,
recent versions of Glibc or GCC don't like that.

I'll attach my slightly modified ebuild, which checks for failed builds and
patches the source to use errno correctly. I'd submit the patch to the author,
but it seems to be currently unmaintained.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. "emerge net-dialup/mserver-0.5.5-r1" on an up to date Gentoo system
2. attempt to start the mserver daemon
3. discover that it doesn't exist

[Comment 1 Jonathan Rogers 2003-10-11 04:11:36 UTC]

Created attachment 19090 [details]
my slightly modified ebuild

[Comment 2 Jonathan Rogers 2003-10-11 04:12:45 UTC]

Created attachment 19091 [details, diff]
patch to fix errno link problem

[Comment 3 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2003-10-11 11:56:18 UTC]

thx, commited :)

[Comment 4 Jonathan Rogers 2003-10-11 16:11:59 UTC]

Thanks for the quick resolution. Is it normal to modify an ebuild without
changing its version? I would have thought it better to bump the version
to "mserver-0.5.5-r2", especially since the ebuild has been around for a
while and probably worked fine initially. It's not a big deal for such a
small change; I am just curious about normal portage policy.

[Comment 5 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2003-10-12 02:31:54 UTC]

as this is a compile fix and people who have it installed, needn't recompile
it, i didn't bump the version.