The problem I believe is with this command in /usr/lib/portage/bin/prepstrip: find "${x}" -type f \( -perm +0111 -or -regex '\.so$|\.so\.' \) -print0 | $XARGS -0 -n500 prepstrip The -regex is not performing as intended. Since it is not performing as expected (I believe), I am not sure what the desired output is. But from looking at the command, I think it is trying to find all files that: 1) Have +x ugo -OR- 2) Match *.so(EOL) (EOL=End of Line) -OR- 3) Match *.so.* The second and third checks are not working. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: To See the problem run the following command: 1. find /usr -type f -regex '\.so$|\.so\.' -print Actual Results: # find /usr/ -type f -regex '\.so$|\.so\.' # Expected Results: The results should match this command: # find /usr/ -type f | grep -E '\.so$|\.so\.' /usr/lib/ao/plugins-2/liboss.so /usr/lib/ao/plugins-2/libalsa09.so /usr/lib/librecode.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libOggFLAC++.so.0.0.4 /usr/lib/gimp/1.2/modules/libcolorsel_gtk.so /usr/lib/gimp/1.2/modules/libcolorsel_triangle.so /usr/lib/gimp/1.2/modules/libcolorsel_water.so .... I believe it should have found the files in /usr that are named *.so and *.so.*. The reason that this has not been noticed is that most of the .so files are marked exectutable and so are caught by the first check. [~] > emerge --info Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.4.20040605-r1, 2.6.7-gentoo-r6) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1066MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.5.1 distcc 2.14 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -mtune=pentium3 -ffast-math -ftracer -frename-registers -fomit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/GNUstep/Apps/Login.app /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -mtune=pentium3 -ffast-math -ftracer -frename-registers -fomit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache distcc sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/bmg-main" SYNC="rsync://xenophobia/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi alsa avi berkdb crypt cscope cups encode fbcon foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls nptl offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl plotutils png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd tetex truetype usb x86 xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
Possible Fixes Depending on the behavior desired: find "${x}" -type f \( -perm +0111 -or -name *.so \) -print0 find "${x}" -type f \( -perm +0111 -or -name *.so -or -name *.so.* \) -print0 or from ferringb in IRC: find "${x}" -type f \( -perm +0111 -regex '.+\.so$' -or -regex '.+\.so\..+' \)
For *BSD compatibility, speicifically openBSD compatibility, the find command should omit references to the regex flag and also change the -perm flags syntax. OpenBSD does not support the "+" attribute for permissions. Depending on the desired behavior, the new command could be either: 1) find "${x}" -type f \( -perm -0100 -or -perm -0010 -or -perm -0001 -or -name *.so \) 2) find "${x}" -type f \( -perm -0100 -or -perm -0010 -or -perm -0001 -or -name *.so -or -name *.so.* \) The replacement of the -perm +0111 with these "or"ed perm statments finds the same files and is a drop in replacement for the current command. Until the regex behavior is fixed, I can only assume that the -name flags provide the desired behavior.
Comment #2's #2 is included in CVS now.
Bug has been fixed and released in stable portages on or before 2.0.51-r2
