makepp exists in one ancient (1.18) and one far-too-old-and-virtually-unusable (1.40.1a) - released 2004 - version. Both masked. The makepp homepage lists now for quite some time 1.50 (soon to become 2.0, mostly well tested, beta version) and from correspondence with it's author there is a LOT that happened in the last 7 years - we're regular users of makepp and have to install it outside of portage control which is not that elegant. Please bump and unmask.
Please file another bug report for that stabilisation request.
makepp-1.50_pre110621 now in the tree
>>> Emerging (1 of 1) dev-util/makepp-1.50_pre110621 * makepp-1.50-110621.txz RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking ./makepp-1.50_pre110621.tar.xz to /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/makepp-1.50_pre110621/work >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/makepp-1.50_pre110621/work >>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/makepp-1.50_pre110621/work/makepp-1.50-110621 ... >>> Source prepared. >>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/makepp-1.50_pre110621/work/makepp-1.50-110621 ... >>> Source configured. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/makepp-1.50_pre110621/work/makepp-1.50-110621 ... make -j5 make: Nothing to be done for `all'. >>> Source compiled. >>> Test phase [not enabled]: dev-util/makepp-1.50_pre110621 >>> Install makepp-1.50_pre110621 into /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/makepp-1.50_pre110621/image/ category dev-util make -j5 install DESTDIR=/var/tmp/portage/dev-util/makepp-1.50_pre110621/image/ /usr/bin/perl5.12.4 install.pl /usr/bin /usr/share/makepp /usr/share/man /usr/share/doc/makepp-1.50_pre110621/html none /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/makepp-1.50_pre110621/image/ makepp: unknown option --jobserver-fds=3,4 Using perl in /usr/bin/perl5.12.4. Can't read the file /usr/share/makepp/VERSION--No such file or directory. This should be part of the standard distribution. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Mpp/Text.pm line 752. Compilation failed in require at Mpp/Utils.pm line 21. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Mpp/Utils.pm line 21. Compilation failed in require at /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/makepp-1.50_pre110621/image//bin/makeppinfo line 30. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/makepp-1.50_pre110621/image//bin/makeppinfo line 30. makepp successfully installed. >>> Completed installing makepp-1.50_pre110621 into /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/makepp-1.50_pre110621/image/ From the INSTALL readme: If you want to install it, then cd to the directory you unpacked the distribution into and type: perl install.pl This will ask you where you want to put the various pieces, and will then install them as requested. Or you can also do: configure --prefix=/usr/local make install which will run the regression tests as well. ------------------- Thought the -j5 is a problem. Result of manual try: makepp-1.50-110621 # perl config.pl --prefix=/usr makepp-1.50-110621 # make -j5 install cd t && PERL=/usr/bin/perl5.12.4 /usr/bin/perl5.12.4 run_tests.pl --hint passed aaasimple passed additional_dependencies passed build_cache passed builtins FAILED c_compilation: makepp_test_script.pl returned false This test either requires makepp to find a known compiler in your PATH, or you must provide one in the environment variable CC. passed changed_inputs passed conditionals passed directories passed dry_run_what_if FAILED esql: makepp exited with value 1 passed extra_dependencies passed implicit_load passed include passed last_chance passed load_makefile passed log_graph passed make_makefile FAILED makeppreplay: wrong files: out2, out1, out, n_files FAILED md5: wrong files: iteration_3, iteration_2, iteration_1, iteration_0 passed only_targets passed parallel passed pattern_rule passed perl passed recursive_make passed recursive_rules passed recursive_variants passed repository passed rule_include passed signature passed special_chars_unix passed static_pattern passed target_specific passed variable_expansion passed variables_automatic passed verilog skipped r wildcard_repository Some failures, which possibly all have the same cause -- you are probably ok. In the /tmp/makepp-1.50-110621/t/ directory you will find details ------------------- In Reply to comment #1: Wilco, as soon as we've managed to successfully install makepp 1.5xxx from portage and our testsuite runs through without errors.
