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Bug 36791 - libtermcap-compat-1.2.3 fails to build on amd64
Summary: libtermcap-compat-1.2.3 fails to build on amd64
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: AMD64 Project
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Reported: 2003-12-30 02:05 UTC by Peter McGowan
Modified: 2004-02-25 05:47 UTC (History)
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Description Peter McGowan 2003-12-30 02:05:13 UTC 
When emerging the ebuild for libtermcap-compat-1.2.3 on an amd64 system, the make fails with an error:

chown: `bin.bin': invalid user

man chown now states that a dot separator is no longer valid for a user/group separator, so I then stepped through the installation using ebuild, and modified the Makefile to specify 

OWNER=bin:bin

This then compiled successfully.

I have subsequently noticed the libtermcap-compat bug that modifies the owner to root:root in the ebuild, so this may be a better longer-term fix in the Makefile.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-12-30 03:07:36 UTC 
Peter was this emerge part of a coreutils emerge (5.0.91-r3)?  If so, that's kind of ironic, because coreutils-5.0.91-r3 restores chown's behaviour to accept the . as well as the :
Comment 2 Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-02-25 05:47:56 UTC 
I can't reproduce this, please re-open if this still is a problem.