app-text/po4a installs its executable into /usr/script. But, there is no entry in PATH instructing the shell to search there for an executable. Yet the latest version of app-i18n/man-pages-de-1.7 requires to execute 'po4a' and fails because it cannot find it. My quickfix on systems where I did not previously add the '/usr/script' for other reasons is: # echo "PATH=/usr/script" > /etc/env.d/99paths && env-update && source /etc/profile I suppose either 1) '/usr/script/' gets added to the PATH variable on a global level or 2) app-text/po4a is instructed to install or link its scripts into '/usr/bin/' '/usr/script/' is not part of the FHS, but its used by various packages on my system: # cave owner /usr/script app-text/po4a-0.45-r1::installed dev-perl/Archive-Zip-1.300.0-r1::installed dev-perl/DateManip-6.410.0::installed dev-perl/SGMLSpm-1.03-r7::installed dev-perl/libwww-perl-6.50.0::installed perl-core/Archive-Tar-1.900.0-r1::installed perl-core/Digest-SHA-5.820.0::installed perl-core/ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.180.0-r1::installed perl-core/IO-Compress-2.60.0::installed perl-core/Module-Build-0.400.300-r1::installed perl-core/Test-Harness-3.260.0::installed $ emerge --info Portage 2.2.8-r2 (hardened/linux/amd64, gcc-4.8.3, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.15.10-hardened-r1-server03 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.15.10-hardened-r1-server03-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-3770_CPU_@_3.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 16130124 total, 11297928 free KiB Swap: 7813112 total, 7813112 free Timestamp of tree: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.4) 2.24 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p53::<unknown repository> dev-lang/perl: 5.18.2-r2::<unknown repository> dev-lang/python: 2.7.7::<unknown repository>, 3.2.5-r6::<unknown repository>, 3.3.5-r1::<unknown repository>, 3.4.1::<unknown repository> dev-util/cmake: 2.8.12.2-r1::<unknown repository> dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r1::<unknown repository> sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2::<unknown repository> sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4::<unknown repository> sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1::<unknown repository> sys-devel/autoconf: 2.69::<unknown repository> sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6::<unknown repository>, 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It shouldn't install anything in /usr/script. You might want to run something like `equery b /usr/script/po4a' to see what package installed that, if any.
TL;DR: Okay, I think I've got it and to my astonishment the 'Configure' script picks up on my custom '/usr/script' directory and decides to go with it. The directory got installed by a custom ebuild of mine. Here's the relevant excerpt from '/var/tmp/paludis/work/perl-5.18.2/Configure' 9459 : Set the vendorscript variables 9460 case "$vendorprefix" in 9461 '') d_vendorscript="$undef" 9462 vendorscript='' 9463 vendorscriptexp='' 9464 ;; 9465 *) d_vendorscript="$define" 9466 : determine where vendor-supplied scripts go. 9467 case "$vendorscript" in 9468 '') dflt=$vendorprefix/script 9469 $test -d $dflt || dflt=$vendorbin ;; 9470 *) dflt="$vendorscript" ;; 9471 esac So either I report that upstream or I just add a file to env.d in the ebuild of the package supplying '/usr/script'. Probably the latter ... though I find it a bit inconsistent behavior. But what do I know. I am going to close this report, but attach the build log mentioned further down just for completeness' sake. --- full story --- Let me state first that I am using Paludis. Though, I do not think that it should make a difference regarding the install location. Took me some time, but I think I found the culprit on multiple systems: -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46672 21. Okt 12:39 /usr/lib/perl5/5.18.2/i686-linux/Config_heavy.pl -r--r--r-- 1 root root 46866 Oct 21 12:18 /usr/lib/perl5/5.18.2/x86_64-linux/Config_heavy.pl This file always contains the line installvendorscript='/usr/script' and if I change that to installvendorscript='/usr/bin' all is good. BTW: There are other lines in it containing '/usr/script'. The is part of 'dev-lang/perl'. Just to be sure Paludis has nothing to do with it, I reinstalled dev-lang/perl and app-text/po4a with Portage. In case Paludis changed the general installation location there -- though I doubt that, the commands it executes come from the same eclasses and ebuilds. I did a 'emerge -v dev-lang/perl dev-perl/po4a', same result. I attached the console output from the emerge. Please don't wonder, that the merge removes the files from the correct position -- I had it fixed before, but when I reinstalled perl with Portage, my fix was reverted. But you will find a line in the build log: Pathname for the vendor-supplied scripts directory? (~name ok) [/usr/script] This is all happening on another system of mine, having the same issue. I wonder if dev-lang/perl picks up on my custom '/usr/script' directory and thinks: "Ah, let's install it there." As I said: po4a is not the only package showing up in '/usr/script' -- 'cave-owner' shows which package have installed a specific file/directory just like 'equery b' does. But just to be on the safe side, here is the output of 'equery b /usr/script/po4a' # equery b /usr/script/po4a * Searching for /usr/script/po4a ... app-text/po4a-0.45-r1 (/usr/script/po4a) here is 'equery b /usr/script/' # equery b /usr/script/ * Searching for /usr/script/ ... app-text/po4a-0.45-r1 (/usr/script) dev-perl/DBI-1.628.0 (/usr/script) dev-perl/SGMLSpm-1.03-r7 (/usr/script) here is a direct query on the actual package database # grep usr/script /var/db/pkg/app-text/po4a-0.45-r1/CONTENTS dir /usr/script obj /usr/script/po4a-normalize 3dc811e0b5e4cdacbdd4e3369076ec59 1415109377 obj /usr/script/po4a-gettextize c8a19796c30924254b43f4cd97989806 1415109377 obj /usr/script/po4aman-display-po 4a30362c46273fa25808aa68bca115e6 1415109377 obj /usr/script/po4a-updatepo b0169da3d46a2ab0e9b536d0bbade8d0 1415109377 obj /usr/script/po4apod-display-po 02df6da6136b1ab27bd3f22e9f09b4fb 1415109377 obj /usr/script/po4a-build c9dc0fdf465f21e893da5ed76f93e8b5 1415109377 obj /usr/script/msguntypot 3a78c96fcdbeb215554120371c07ec39 1415109377 obj /usr/script/po4a d5af2ff40d9536080119be23b6f7bcfd 1415109377 obj /usr/script/po4a-translate 22375001aa298fcfecac20282c8fb4f5 1415109377 here is a direct query on the problematic file after I installed it with Portage # grep -i /usr/script /usr/lib/perl5/5.18.2/x86_64-linux/Config_heavy.pl installvendorscript='/usr/script' vendorscript='/usr/script' vendorscriptexp='/usr/script' and ownership of the file according to 'equery b' # equery b /usr/lib64/perl5/5.18.2/x86_64-linux/Config_heavy.pl * Searching for /usr/lib64/perl5/5.18.2/x86_64-linux/Config_heavy.pl ... dev-lang/perl-5.18.2-r2 (/usr/lib64/perl5/5.18.2/x86_64-linux/Config_heavy.pl)
Created attachment 388532 [details] emerge log from dev-lang/perl and app-text/po4a
