Bug 7667 – xfree wont emerge because of "XftConfig : Argument list too long"...see "URL" for all info

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description gabe parmer 2002-09-08 14:22:37 UTC]

http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-newbies/2002-September/002442.html
for complete details.

emerge xfree (which tried to emerge
/usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/xfree-4.2.0-r12.ebuild) does not work exiting with
error 2.  cp : XftConfig : Argument list too long.  I have emerge rsync, emerge
-u world.  I have tried to do it about 8 times trying to emerge -u different
things, and each time it gets that same error.  using gcc 2.95.3 or whatever the
default is in gentoo 1.2.

[Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-09-08 15:12:52 UTC]

Do the following:

# USE="-acl" emerge fileutils

and try again.

[Comment 2 gabe parmer 2002-09-08 19:36:53 UTC]

I just tried your suggestion it exited with the same error.  Would it be easier
for me to simply rebuild the distribution from stage 1 again using the default
"use" options?  (without gnome or kde as I want to use icewm)

[Comment 3 gabe parmer 2002-09-10 20:28:43 UTC]

I got tired of X not working so I redid the distribution using a vanilla kernel
and USE settings closer to the defaults (and ext3 instead of xfs), and it works
fine.  I dont know what the problem was.  Sorry, but I got very frustrated
trying to figure it out.

Thanks for all the help, I LOVE your distribution.

gabe

[Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-09-11 13:19:27 UTC]

Ok, reopen this if you have more info.