I tried to install Gimp (or GIMP or gimp, whatever your preference). In the list of dependencies lies dev-perl/PDL-2.4.0-r1, which produces the following error: # # emerge --verbose --debug gimp # ... <snip> ... Writing Makefile for PDL::Primitive Writing Makefile for PDL::Slices Writing Makefile for PDL::Tests ERROR from evaluation of /var/tmp/portage/PDL-2.4.0-r1/work/PDL-2.4.0/Basic/Makefile.PL: ERROR from evaluation of /var/tmp/portage/PDL-2.4.0-r1/work/PDL-2.4.0/Basic/Math/Makefile.PL: couldn't open testfile `/root/tmp/testfile.c' for writing at Core/Dev.pm line 603. + '[' '' '!=' builder ']' + make make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. + diefunc perl-module_src_compile 49 2 'compilation failed' + local funcname=perl-module_src_compile lineno=49 exitcode=2 + shift 3 + echo + echo '!!! ERROR: dev-perl/PDL-2.4.0-r1 failed.' !!! ERROR: dev-perl/PDL-2.4.0-r1 failed. + echo '!!! Function perl-module_src_compile, Line 49, Exitcode 2' !!! Function perl-module_src_compile, Line 49, Exitcode 2 + echo '!!! compilation failed' !!! compilation failed + echo + exit 1 I grepped through the work dir for PDL-2.4.0 and noticed the following: # # relevant responses from: # grep -Hrn TEMP /var/tmp/portage/PDL-2.4.0-r1/ # /var/tmp/portage/PDL-2.4.0-r1/temp/environment:183:TEMP=/root/tmp /var/tmp/portage/PDL-2.4.0-r1/work/PDL-2.4.0/t/misc.t:32:$td = $^O =~ /MSWin/ ? 'TEMP' : 'tmp'; /var/tmp/portage/PDL-2.4.0-r1/work/PDL-2.4.0/t/misc.t:33:$tempd = defined $ENV{TEMP} ? $ENV{TEMP} : /var/tmp/portage/PDL-2.4.0-r1/work/PDL-2.4.0/IO/Pnm/Pic.pm:770: $tmpdir = $ENV{"TEMP"} if defined $ENV{"TEMP"}; /var/tmp/portage/PDL-2.4.0-r1/work/PDL-2.4.0/IO/Pnm/pnm.pd:76: for ('TMP','TEMP','TMPDIR') { ...<snip>... /var/tmp/portage/PDL-2.4.0-r1/work/PDL-2.4.0/Basic/Core/Dev.pm:597: my $td = $^O =~ /MSWin/ ? 'TEMP' : 'tmp'; /var/tmp/portage/PDL-2.4.0-r1/work/PDL-2.4.0/Basic/Core/Dev.pm:598: my $tempd = defined $ENV{TEMP} ? $ENV{TEMP} : /var/tmp/portage/PDL-2.4.0-r1/work/PDL-2.4.0/Basic/Math/Makefile.PL:104:$td = $^O =~ /MSWin/ ? 'TEMP' : 'tmp'; /var/tmp/portage/PDL-2.4.0-r1/work/PDL-2.4.0/Basic/Math/Makefile.PL:105:$tempd = defined $ENV{TEMP} ? $ENV{TEMP} : /var/tmp/portage/PDL-2.4.0-r1/work/PDL-2.4.0/Basic/MatrixOps/Makefile.PL:91:$td = $^O =~ /MSWin/ ? 'TEMP' : 'tmp'; /var/tmp/portage/PDL-2.4.0-r1/work/PDL-2.4.0/Basic/MatrixOps/Makefile.PL:92:$tempd = defined $ENV{TEMP} ? $ENV{TEMP} : <snip> /var/tmp/portage/PDL-2.4.0-r1/work/PDL-2.4.0/win32/win32f77.pl:69: my $dir = exists $ENV{TEMP} ? $ENV{TEMP} : exists $ENV{TMP} ? $ENV{TMP} : /var/tmp/portage/PDL-2.4.0-r1/work/PDL-2.4.0/Graphics/TriD/TriD/VRML.pm:539: $this->{'Filestem'} = ($ENV{'TMP'} || $ENV{'TEMP'} || '/tmp') . /var/tmp/portage/PDL-2.4.0-r1/work/PDL-2.4.0/Graphics/TriD/TriD/VRML.pm:568:my $tmpdir = $ENV{'TMP'} || $ENV{'TEMP'} || '/tmp'; When I spotted the relavent lines in ebuild.sh, the fix was fairly obvious. See attached patch. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge PDL (or, in my case, gimp) 2. wait for the crash 3. profit!! Actual Results: not portage specifically, but the installation crashes Expected Results: successfull installation since you're interested... # # emerge --info # Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.20-gentoo-r8) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -mno-sse2 -mno-sse -mmmx -m3dnow -mhard-float -O3 -funroll-loops -frerun-loop-opt -fmerge-all-constants -fmove-all-movables -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -mno-sse2 -mno-sse -mmmx -m3dnow -mhard-float -O3 -funroll-loops -frerun-loop-opt -fmerge-all-constants -fmove-all-movables -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/ http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/ http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg kde libg++ mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts svga java guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt opengl mozilla 3dnow aalib acl alsa bonobo cdr cjk cscope directfb doc dvd esd gd ggi gtk2 gtkhtml imap kerberos mbox mcal menu mmx mozcalendar mozsvg mozxmlterm nas nptl offensive skey spell tcltk tetex tiff usb vim-with-x wmf wxwindows Xaw3d xml"
Created attachment 21502 [details, diff] Sets one variable to fix the bug and clears the $Header:$ tag for CVS submission A "more right" answer would have been to patch the PDL install scripts so that they would default to the more standard $TMP, but that would have left the opportunity for future bugs of the same species.
Created attachment 21589 [details, diff] removes reference to environment variable "TEMP" from several files As the bug was reassigned from portage to perl, perhaps this patch would be more to the liking of all involved
Comment on attachment 21589 [details, diff] removes reference to environment variable "TEMP" from several files >diff --recursive --unified PDL-2.4.0.orig/Basic/Core/Dev.pm PDL-2.4.0/Basic/Core/Dev.pm >--- PDL-2.4.0.orig/Basic/Core/Dev.pm 2003-04-04 15:25:09.000000000 -0800 >+++ PDL-2.4.0/Basic/Core/Dev.pm 2003-12-01 20:13:51.000000000 -0800 >@@ -595,9 +595,9 @@ > > my $HIDE = ($^O =~ /MSWin/) || !$hide ? '' : '>/dev/null 2>&1'; > my $td = $^O =~ /MSWin/ ? 'TEMP' : 'tmp'; >- my $tempd = defined $ENV{TEMP} ? $ENV{TEMP} : >- defined $ENV{TMP} ? $ENV{TMP} : >+ my $tempd = defined $ENV{TMPDIR} ? $ENV{TMPDIR} : >+ defined $ENV{TMP} ? $ENV{TMP} : > &$cdir($fs->rootdir,$td); > > my ($tc,$te) = map {&$cfile($tempd,"testfile$_")} ('.c',''); > open FILE,">$tc" or die "couldn't open testfile `$tc' for writing"; >diff --recursive --unified PDL-2.4.0.orig/Basic/Math/Makefile.PL PDL-2.4.0/Basic/Math/Makefile.PL >--- PDL-2.4.0.orig/Basic/Math/Makefile.PL 2002-11-19 16:15:01.000000000 -0800 >+++ PDL-2.4.0/Basic/Math/Makefile.PL 2003-12-01 20:15:06.000000000 -0800 >@@ -102,9 +102,9 @@ > $dir = $fs->canonpath(cwd); > $dir = cdir $dir, $mdir unless $dir =~ /$mmdir$/; > $td = $^O =~ /MSWin/ ? 'TEMP' : 'tmp'; >-$tempd = defined $ENV{TEMP} ? $ENV{TEMP} : >- defined $ENV{TMP} ? $ENV{TMP} : >+$tempd = defined $ENV{TMPDIR} ? $ENV{TMPDIR} : >+ defined $ENV{TMP} ? $ENV{TMP} : > cdir($fs->rootdir,$td); > > foreach (@sfuncs) { > $source{$_} = 'system' if is_sys_func( "$_();", $libs ); >diff --recursive --unified PDL-2.4.0.orig/Basic/MatrixOps/Makefile.PL PDL-2.4.0/Basic/MatrixOps/Makefile.PL >--- PDL-2.4.0.orig/Basic/MatrixOps/Makefile.PL 2002-11-19 18:18:44.000000000 -0800 >+++ PDL-2.4.0/Basic/MatrixOps/Makefile.PL 2003-12-01 20:15:45.000000000 -0800 >@@ -89,9 +89,9 @@ > $dir = $fs->canonpath(cwd); > $dir = cdir $dir, $mdir unless $dir =~ /$mmdir$/; > $td = $^O =~ /MSWin/ ? 'TEMP' : 'tmp'; >-$tempd = defined $ENV{TEMP} ? $ENV{TEMP} : >- defined $ENV{TMP} ? $ENV{TMP} : >+$tempd = defined $ENV{TMPDIR} ? $ENV{TMPDIR} : >+ defined $ENV{TMP} ? $ENV{TMP} : > cdir($fs->rootdir,$td); > > foreach (@sfuncs) { > $source{$_} = 'system' if is_sys_func( "$_();", $libs ); >diff --recursive --unified PDL-2.4.0.orig/Graphics/TriD/TriD/VRML.pm PDL-2.4.0/Graphics/TriD/TriD/VRML.pm >--- PDL-2.4.0.orig/Graphics/TriD/TriD/VRML.pm 2000-08-08 04:18:48.000000000 -0700 >+++ PDL-2.4.0/Graphics/TriD/TriD/VRML.pm 2003-12-01 22:33:23.000000000 -0800 >@@ -536,8 +536,8 @@ > $this->{'Type'} = $types{$mime}; > &{$this->{'Type'}->{'setup'}} if defined $this->{'Type'}->{'setup'}; > $this->{'Binding'} = 'local'; >- $this->{'Filestem'} = ($ENV{'TMP'} || $ENV{'TEMP'} || '/tmp') . >+ $this->{'Filestem'} = ($ENV{'TMPDIR'} || $ENV{'TMP'} || '/tmp') . > "/tridim_$urlnum"; $urlnum++; > return $this; > } > >@@ -565,7 +564,7 @@ > }; > > # set up the default parameters for VRML >-my $tmpdir = $ENV{'TMP'} || $ENV{'TEMP'} || '/tmp'; >+my $tmpdir = $ENV{'TMPDIR'} || $ENV{'TMP'} || '/tmp'; > my $tmpname = "$tmpdir/tridvrml_$$.wrl"; > my $para = $PDL::Graphics::TriD::Settings = > PDL::Graphics::TriD::VRML::Parameter->new() ; >diff --recursive --unified PDL-2.4.0.orig/IO/Pnm/Pic.pm PDL-2.4.0/IO/Pnm/Pic.pm >--- PDL-2.4.0.orig/IO/Pnm/Pic.pm 2003-02-01 21:22:40.000000000 -0800 >+++ PDL-2.4.0/IO/Pnm/Pic.pm 2003-12-01 20:07:06.000000000 -0800 >@@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ > # are there already VMS or Windows NT/95 users ? > my $tmpdir = '/tmp'; > $tmpdir = $ENV{"TMP"} if defined $ENV{"TMP"}; >- $tmpdir = $ENV{"TEMP"} if defined $ENV{"TEMP"}; >+ $tmpdir = $ENV{"TMPDIR"} if defined $ENV{"TMPDIR"}; > $tmpdir =~ s|/$||; # chop off a trailing '/' > barf "can't locate a temp dir" unless -d $tmpdir; > return $tmpdir; >diff --recursive --unified PDL-2.4.0.orig/IO/Pnm/pnm.pd PDL-2.4.0/IO/Pnm/pnm.pd >--- PDL-2.4.0.orig/IO/Pnm/pnm.pd 2001-01-21 01:24:08.000000000 -0800 >+++ PDL-2.4.0/IO/Pnm/pnm.pd 2003-12-01 20:13:06.000000000 -0800 >@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ > # in the future an os indep. way > # are there already VMS or Windows NT/95 users ? > my $tmpdir = '/tmp'; >- for ('TMP','TEMP','TMPDIR') { >+ for ('TMP','TMPDIR') { > $tmpdir = $ENV{$_} if defined $ENV{$_}; > } > $tmpdir =~ s|/$||; # chop off a trailing '/' >diff --recursive --unified PDL-2.4.0.orig/t/misc.t PDL-2.4.0/t/misc.t >--- PDL-2.4.0.orig/t/misc.t 2002-05-13 14:29:48.000000000 -0700 >+++ PDL-2.4.0/t/misc.t 2003-12-01 20:10:53.000000000 -0800 >@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ > sub cdir { return $fs->catdir(@_)} > sub cfile { return $fs->catfile(@_)} > $td = $^O =~ /MSWin/ ? 'TEMP' : 'tmp'; >-$tempd = defined $ENV{TEMP} ? $ENV{TEMP} : >- defined $ENV{TMP} ? $ENV{TMP} : >+$tempd = defined $ENV{TMPDIR} ? $ENV{TMPDIR} : >+ defined $ENV{TMP} ? $ENV{TMP} : > cdir($fs->rootdir,$td); > $file = cfile $tempd, "iotest$$"; > > ############# Test rcols with filename and pattern #############
I just edited the patch for better consistency. Since the environ(5) manpage mentions TMPDIR, I chose that for the default. TMP is also common, so I used that as the fallback.
So any thoughts on this? Are the patches inadequate? Is somebody reviewing this? What's going on behind the veil?
-nudge-nudge-
Nobody seems interested in handling this, and I'm tired of looking at it.
