When I emerge svgalib (tried both 1.9.19-r1 and 1.9.18) the install fails trying to write to /etc/ld.so.conf. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge svgalib Actual Results: Installing shared library image as /var/tmp/portage/svgalib-1.9.19-r1/image//usr/lib/libvga.so.1.9.19 /var/tmp/portage/svgalib-1.9.19-r1/image//usr/lib/libvgagl.so.1.9.19. ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/ld.so.conf ./fixldsoconf: line 6: /etc/ld.so.conf: Permission denied make: *** [installsharedlib] Error 1 !!! ERROR: media-libs/svgalib-1.9.19-r1 failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 103, Exitcode 2 !!! Failed to install svgalib! --------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY ---------------------------LOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-media-libs_-_svgalib-1.9.19-r1-30669.log" open_wr: /etc/ld.so.conf -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Expected Results: installed svgalib root@euphoria env.d # ls -l /etc/ld.so.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 292 Sep 21 09:44 /etc/ld.so.conf root@euphoria root # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.8-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r1 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -Os -frename-registers -ftracer -mieee-fp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /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="-march=pentium3 -Os -frename-registers -ftracer -mieee-fp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/www.ibiblio.org/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo rsync://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/gentoo/ http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt encode esd f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozcalendar mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mpeg ncurses nls opengl pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype wmf x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"
this is the problem: during the build process a shell script called fixldsoconf is executed This is shown below: #!/bin/sh if grep -q /usr/local/lib /etc/ld.so.conf then echo > /dev/null else echo /usr/local/lib >> /etc/ld.so.conf fi I don't have /usr/local/lib and so the build tries to add that line to /etc/ld.so.conf - hence the ACCESS violation. manually adding /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf lets the emerge complete.
you should have /usr/local/lib in your /etc/ld.so.conf since it comes from /etc/env.d/00basic which comes from baselayout ... added a patch to cvs to remove fixldsoconf
