Bug 3326 – MPlayer emerge Lib pthread problem

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description linux-dev 2002-06-02 10:09:13 UTC]

(tried posting to gentoo-user, no response)

trying to emerge mplayer, i get the following error:

Checking for malloc.h ... yes
Checking for memalign() ... yes
Checking for alloca.h ... yes
Checking for mman.h ... yes
Checking for dynamic loader ... yes
Checking for pthread ... ./configure: /tmp/mplayer-conf-31685-27356.o:
Permission denied
./configure: /tmp/mplayer-conf-31685-27356.o: Permission denied

Error: Lib pthread not found. (needed by windows and networking stuff)

Check configure.log if you do not understand why it failed.

!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 140, Exitcode 1
!!! (no error message)

!!! emerge aborting on  /usr/portage/media-video/mplayer/mplayer-0.90_pre4.ebuild .

---------------------------------------------------------------


---->>>>  is this a *permission* problem or a *libpthread* issue?  <<<<----
                      or an *mplayer* issue?

('configure.log' doesn't exist)

permissions for /tmp are:
drwxrwxrwt    7 root     root         4096 Jun  2 00:18 tmp

libpthread exists as such:
/lib/libpthread-0.9.so
/lib/libpthread.so.0
/usr/lib/libpthread.a
/usr/lib/libpthread.so


ANY IDEAS why this is not working??!

[Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-06-03 14:45:25 UTC]

It is a ./configure / sandbox issue.  A few things ... 

1) What is your $PORTAGE_TMPDIR set to.
2) What is your $TMPDIR set to.
3) Do you have any $SANDBOX_* variables set.
4) Anything else that could be relevant.

[Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-06-03 15:04:17 UTC]

Actually, try the following:

Edit /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh and search for the line:

    export S D

then add just below it:

   export TMPDIR="${T}"

Giving you:

------------------------snip------------------------------------
    #our custom version of libtool uses $S and $D to fix
    #invalid paths in .la files
    export S D
    export TMPDIR="${T}"
    src_compile
    cd ${BUILDDIR}
    touch .compiled
    if [ ! -e "build-info" ]
    then
        mkdir build-info
    fi
    cd build-info
------------------------snip------------------------------------

And try to remerge mplayer.

[Comment 3 linux-dev 2002-06-03 15:17:20 UTC]

Hello,

adding:

   export TMPDIR="${T}"

as you specified did the trick!

why has no one else had this problem?
is there something that i should know about,
other than this fix?

thanks!

[Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-06-10 13:57:11 UTC]

On most Gentoo boxes, $TMPDIR is not set.  Great to know its working!