When compiling (both with emerge and stand-alone) LTP, it does these unusual things: 1) Checks some dependencies with rpm. It also seem to want to run with exactly those versions of the packages (found no mention in the docs of this). Done in testcases/ballista/create.sh 2) After this, it would run testcases/ballista/ballista/configure to mangle testcases/ballista/ballista/Makefile, and specify some sane settings for compiler path. Instead, it does not, and the path in the file is used: it is /usr/local/g++, not very nice. Also, testcases/ballista/ballista/configure uses as interpreter /usr/local/bin/perl5, which does not work obviously (perl5 does not exist on Gentoo - shouldn't it exist, too?). The output, then, is: make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ltp-20041104/work/ltp-full-20041104/pan' make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/ltp-20041104/work/ltp-full-20041104/testcases' make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/ltp-20041104/work/ltp-full-20041104/testcases/ballista' ./create.sh sh: rpm: command not found sh: rpm: command not found The following dependencie(s) are missing: libg++-devel-2.8.1-2.i386.rpm libstdc++5-3.3.1-2mdk.i586.rpm g++-3.3.3-59756cl.i386.rpm for gcc 3.3.3 libstdc++5-devel-3.3.1-2mdk.i586.rpm libg++-2.8.1-2.i386.rpm libstdc++5-static-devel-3.3.1-2mdk.i586.rpm The rpms can be downloaded at www.rpmfind.net Install these rpms and re-run this script make -i -C ballista make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/ltp-20041104/work/ltp-full-20041104/testcases/ballista/ballista' /usr/local/g++ -Wno-deprecated -O callGen.cpp -o callGen make[3]: /usr/local/g++: Command not found /usr/local/g++ -Wno-deprecated -O callGen_standAlone.cpp -o callGen_standAlone make[3]: /usr/local/g++: Command not found make[3]: [callGen] Error 127 (ignored) /usr/local/g++ -Wno-deprecated -O genCodeCreator.cpp -o genCodeCreator make[3]: /usr/local/g++: Command not found make[3]: [callGen_standAlone] Error 127 (ignored) make[3]: [genCodeCreator] Error 127 (ignored) /usr/local/g++ -Wno-deprecated -O replacer.cpp -o replacer make[3]: /usr/local/g++: Command not found /usr/local/g++ -Wno-deprecated -w -O -DB_SELFHOST -c match.cpp make[3]: /usr/local/g++: Command not found make[3]: [replacer] Error 127 (ignored) And then I stopped it and went investigating. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -vp '=ltp-20041104' 2. 3. Actual Results: The compilation does not complete all the needed step (some files are not built) . Expected Results: Build all its parts. Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6. 9-skas3-v7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-skas3-v7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3. 3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config / 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=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/home/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/ gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://www.ibiblio. org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowex X X509 aalib acl acpi aim alsa arts artswrappersuid avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib cdr crypt cscope cups dba dvb dvd dvdr dvdread encode erandom ethereal flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 iconv icq ideaimap imlib innodb irda jabber jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kerberos krb4 ldap libcaca libg++ libwww live lua lzo lzw-tiff mad maildir mbox md5sum mikmod mime mmx mmx2 mng motif mpeg mpeg4 msn mysql mythtv ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl php pic png pnp ppds python qt quicktime readline real rtc samba scanner sdl session slang slp smime sse sse2 ssl svg sysvipc tcpd tetex tga tiff truetype unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 wifi winbind x86 xanim xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xpm xsl xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib"
Created attachment 44456 [details, diff] ballista fixes, put in files dir This one might fix the perl path weirdness, fixes the path to g++ in the Makefile, and kills most of the path checks.
Created attachment 44457 [details, diff] ebuild patch This applies the previous patch and installs some more files.
ok, this gets this thing a bit further. It still doesn't work though. For starters: the build process is just plain weird. It expects rpm to exist (and be in $PATH even) to check for things. Since it only checks for stuff a normal gentoo gcc with c++ support should already have I just pulled the plug on this. It then demands perl to live in /usr/local/bin/perl5. This path is hardcoded in the #! lines in a few scripts. I replaced this with /usr/bin/env perl, which should work. Finally I think I didn't install quite enough: I only installed testcases/bin, I now install all of testcases, which should work a bit better :) Unfortunately, if you actually try to run the hacked-up ballista it attempts to write to the dir it is installed in, which obviously is not a good idea. I'll leave that one to someone else, I'm tired of fighting a package that apparently doesn't like to get installed.
you and a few others. No wonder the original bug 13662 stayed open and untouched for so long.
Marien, Thanks for the patch. applied to both versions. patched ltp-20041104.ebuild and added ltp-20041203.ebuild more fixes welcome.
