Yesterday, on my Mac OS X 10.11 and a Red Hat 4.1.2-52 machine, I am getting build failures at stage3 for sys-apps/coreutils-8.24. The relevant output from the Mac OS X bootstrapping: CCLD src/libstdbuf.dylib x86_64-apple-darwin15-clang-3.5.2: error: no input files make[2]: *** [src/libstdbuf.dylib] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 The error is similar for the Red Hat machine, but with the .so suffix. Today, I noticed https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/prefix.git/commit/?id=be688d01214b00bee11b52c2ca98f3f54f704381. However, this commit has an extra '\' for escaping the '.' character. After removing the additional '\', coreutil-8.24 was able to build successfully. Please let me know if you need a patch attached.
I tested it, and it worked for me. Since we use double quoting, the backslash needs to be escaped, since it needs to end up in the string fed to sed. Are you sure it doesn't work the way it it right now?
My apologies. Apparently, the sys-apps/coreutils-8.24 ebuild I originally had did not include your commit. When I was looking into what was going on, I modified the source and confused myself that I actually made changes on top of your commit. It turns out that both '\.' and '\\.' will work in bash. https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Double-Quotes.html I'll retry bootstrapping prefix on machines again. It seems like it is safe to withdraw/resolve this issue.
When is your change publicly available? I've read https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix/FAQ#A_fix_was_committed.2C_but_I_don.27t_have_it.2C_how_come.3F, but maybe I am misunderstanding how everything gets updated in the prefix world. Thanks!
I'll bump the snapshot now, that'll help ;)
that commit should fix this
