Bug 53639 – grub-0.94-r1 fails to emerge - faulty amd64 test code?

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Martin Glaude 2004-06-11 07:17:36 UTC]

A P4-celeron, trying to install grub-0.94-r1 fails immediately.  See this forum topic:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=183966

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to emerge grub.
Actual Results:  
>>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-boot/grub-0.94-r1 to /  
 >>> md5 src_uri ;-) grub-0.94.tar.gz  
 >>> md5 src_uri ;-) grub-0.94-splash.patch.bz2  
 >>> Unpacking source...  
  
 !!! ERROR: sys-boot/grub-0.94-r1 failed.  
 !!! Function src_unpack, Line 23, Exitcode 1  
 !!! please re-emerge gcc with USE=multilib FEATURES=-sandbox  
 
 

Expected Results:  
Grub should install. 

Commenting out these two lines in the ebuild allows grub to be installed: 
 
use amd64 && ( has_m64 && has_m32) || \  
                 die "please re-emerge gcc with USE=multilib 
FEATURES=-sandbox"  
 
Obviously a more proper solution is required in the actual ebuild.

[Comment 1 Martin Glaude 2004-06-11 07:21:05 UTC]

Note: re-emerging gcc with USE=multilib FEATURES=-sandbox does not fix the problem or change the error message.

[Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2004-06-11 16:39:26 UTC]

as far as I know, this was fixed over 24 hours ago -- have you sync'd since then and tried this?

[Comment 3 Travis Tilley (RETIRED) 2004-06-14 11:04:19 UTC]

this is fixed.