At the end of src_prepare the file list is too long for touch, it silently fails; thus src_prepare passes, but the command itself still fails and thus what it tries to prevent it does not do. Can you either correct the line or remove it?
the whole point of using xargs is to fix long lines. the command seems to work fine for me, but there's no real information in this bug report.
Well, it appears to split wrong then; bug with xargs or touch perhaps? Line in question: `find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 touch -r configure` Either xargs passes too much per call or touch doesn't accept enough of them. Note that this is on ARM. $ xargs --show-limits Your environment variables take up 3712 bytes POSIX upper limit on argument length (this system): 2091392 POSIX smallest allowable upper limit on argument length (all systems): 4096 Maximum length of command we could actually use: 2087680 Size of command buffer we are actually using: 131072
still haven't really shown how it is failing did you do an `ls` on the dir and see mismatch of timestamps ? something else ? what if you strace the find/xargs/touch processes ? you also need to post `emerge --info` with every bug report. otherwise you leave devs with randomly guessing at things.
(In reply to SpanKY from comment #3) > still haven't really shown how it is failing The touch command fails due to a too long file list. > did you do an `ls` on the dir and see mismatch of timestamps ? something > else ? As the command fails, the results are indifferent. > what if you strace the find/xargs/touch processes ? Yes, I can do that and will do so as soon as I get to it; but since the files in the directory have since changed, it will not be the exact same situation. So, I will see if it is still reproducible. But regardless of that, it can happen at random and it is worth considering to account for that. > you also need to post `emerge --info` with every bug report. otherwise you > leave devs with randomly guessing at things. `emerge --info` is also a guess at some random unrelated stuff, you're not going to find a resolution to this bug by looking at a barely changed fresh stage3; in fact it even manages to misrepresent my system, as this is a QEMU static chroot. 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the fact that you're not actually running this natively is probably the single most important point. all results are suspect because of that. as such, i highly doubt it's not a bug in findutils or coreutils.
also, the fact that you're using qemu to run your system instead of actual hardware is critical information that you need to mention in every report originating from this system. or, even better, just buy real hardware and use that. there are plenty of dirt cheap armv7 laptops available on the market that easily run Gentoo. like this $250 chromebook (and probably get it even cheaper on like ebay): http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/samsung-arm-chromebook
Will do, I assumed it did full emulation; but that doesn't appear to be so... :/ Okay, not reproducible on the Raspberry Pi and outside the chroot (which I made to build faster [cheap style :P], but might reconsider that seeing things fail). Given that it breaks strace, I guess there is no realistic way to debug this? Anyhow, since the scope is much more limited than I thought; closed bug WFM...
(In reply to Tom Wijsman (TomWij) from comment #7) don't get me wrong ... being able to hop into a chroot with qemu is super useful (and i do it myself). but when things start acting weird/failing, you'll need to verify on actual hardware that it's failing. as for debugging strace/etc..., that'll require digging into qemu.
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