I tried to compile both pam-0.77 from ARCH and pam-0.77-r2 from ~ARCH, both give this compilation error at pam_cracklib.so, this piece is just before the compilation crashes .. *** Starts to compile the module gcc -shared -L/var/tmp/portage/pam-0.77-r2/work/Linux-PAM-0.77/lib -o pam_cracklib.so dynamic/pam_cracklib.o //usr/lib/libcrack.a -lcrypt -lc -L../pammodutil -lpammodutil *** Gives error gcc: //usr/lib/libcrack.a: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [pam_cracklib.so] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/pam-0.77-r2/work/Linux-PAM-0.77/modules/pam_cracklib' make[1]: *** [all] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/pam-0.77-r2/work/Linux-PAM-0.77/modules' make: *** [modules] Error 2 *** Ends, telling me that i failed and if i need support i should post this messge. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: I've just sync'ed, and just updated world, i got this error just after uninstalling db, and then reinstalling pam.
what version of cracklib do you have presently? if you sync and re-compile cracklib, does pam compile?
# emerge sync && emerge --oneshot cracklib && emerge pam That's what i did at first. Tried again, still doesn't work, and same error :( ..
I get the same problem. I'm trying to install Gentoo from stage 1 on a box. While progressing from Stage2 to Stage3 I get this error. sys-libs/cracklib-2.7-r9 is installed. It has created the following files in /lib/ (not /usr/lib!): /lib/libcrack.so /lib/libcrack.so.2 /lib/libcrack.so.2.7 There is no libcrack.a anywhere on the system. These three files are the only ones that match libcrack\* in the entire chrooted new Gentoo environment. I have "-pam" in my USE flags. I'm a little disappointed that pam-0.77 seems to be installing on my system. I have tried to "emerge sync; emerge cracklib; emerge system" but I still get stuck at the same place.
Workaround: make sure that cracklib is merged with "pam" in the USE flags. Then you can merge pam and it will work, because libcrack.a will be installed by the craclib ebuild when "pam" is defined. Christoffer, have you also compiled cracklib with "-pam"?
Per Cederqvist: Thank you so much :) .. It would help alot with a NOTE on this ebuild if someone could do that?
please try sys-libs/cracklib-2.7-r10 instead of r9, and report back if that solves the problem for you (it should I think).
don't close the bug until it's actually fixed. workarounds don't count.
sys-libs/cracklib-2.7-r10 solves the problem for me. I am now able to compile the pam module. I have not tested the resulting files.
r10 moved to stable on x86 so that this is solved for everybody.
