356237 – app-admin/syslog-ng-3.1.4 needs minimum version rdep for PCRE

Bug 356237 - app-admin/syslog-ng-3.1.4 needs minimum version rdep for PCRE

Summary: app-admin/syslog-ng-3.1.4 needs minimum version rdep for PCRE

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2011-02-23 18:27 UTC by Owen Mann
Modified:	2011-02-27 09:36 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Owen Mann 2011-02-23 18:27:09 UTC

When building syslog-ng-3.1.4 on an old box with dev-libs/libpcre-6.6, I get:
[...]
checking for PCRE... configure: error: Cannot find pcre version >= 7.3.
[...]
 * ERROR: app-admin/syslog-ng-3.1.4 failed:
 *   econf failed

Changing:
-               pcre? ( dev-libs/libpcre )
to:
+               pcre? ( >=dev-libs/libpcre-7.3 )

allows the build to complete successfully.

Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-02-23 18:57:47 UTC

libpcre-6 isn't in the tree anymore.  If you only update part of your portage tree you get to keep both pieces when things break.

Comment 2 Owen Mann 2011-02-23 19:59:13 UTC

Sorry, I don't follow. My portage tree is up to date. My pcre wasn't.
Simply adding the minimum version to the ebuild triggered the up-to-date pcre to build.

Comment 3 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2011-02-24 08:49:55 UTC

You have packages installed which are long gone from the portage tree. Such packages are unsupportable. To avoid this, use the --update --deep options for emerge.

Comment 4 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2011-02-27 09:36:30 UTC

Marking as invalid per comment 1