Bug 310589 – ncurses has nonprefixed shebangs that cause emerge to fail

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo/Alt

[Description Guilherme Amadio 2010-03-21 19:19:53 UTC]

Nonprefixed shebang for ncurses-config cause emerge ncurses to fail

This is in an early bootstrap system... maybe later things will work better.

Just adding the line below to src_compile of the ebuild fixed the problem:

sed -i -e "s/\/bin\/sh/${EPREFIX//\//\\/}\/bin\/sh/;" misc/ncurses-config

[Comment 1 Guilherme Amadio 2010-03-21 19:23:33 UTC]

Created attachment 224577 [details]
patch to ncurses-5.7-r3.ebuild

[Comment 2 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2010-03-22 03:30:57 UTC]

Bah, this issue showed up in bug 309825. That was tested and considered fixed when I (unknowingly) did emerge --oneshot --nodeps bash in my test routine. I didn't know that ncurses exhibited this same issue at the time.

Assuming it is possible and safe to do so (does bash work well enough without ncurses??), I suggest to modify the bootstrapping instructions to reflect this.

[Comment 3 Fabian Groffen 2010-03-22 07:58:40 UTC]

yes, we MUST emerge --nodeps --oneshot bash as first thing now.

[Comment 4 Fabian Groffen 2010-03-22 07:59:18 UTC]

*** Bug 310587 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 Fabian Groffen 2010-03-23 07:38:30 UTC]

I updated the bootstrap docs accordingly