When I went to emerge Minicom on a fresh install of gentoo on my new to me laptop I ran into a problem on it securing a lock directory during the configure part of making it. Here is the line:checking for getopt_long... yes checking for long file names... yes checking for com line lock directory... configure: error: No suitable lock directory !!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report: !!! /var/tmp/portage/minicom-2.1-r1/work/minicom-2.1/config.log !!! ERROR: net-dialup/minicom-2.1-r1 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 485, Exitcode 0 !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge minicom 2. 3. Actual Results: Same thing. I have tried this a few times on this particular machine. Expected Results: the ./configure to finish and the make to begin. Here is my emerge info: localhost / # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.18 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i586) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Feb 23 2005, 08:05:50)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k6-2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=k6-2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://192.168.0.101" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.101/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac acpi alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 crypt cups curl emboss encode f77 fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python quicktime readline real samba sdl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts wlan xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Also I have attached the log file as the error has told me to. If it matters, the modem is a winmodem I used ltmodem as its driver. Also, I am running udev with the default settings as emerged. If you need any more information, please do let me know, as this is my first Gentoo bug.
Created attachment 52611 [details] The config.log that the error asked me to submit.
Do you have /var/lock/subsys on that machine? It should be created by sys-apps/baselayout.
Actually, There is no /var/lock directory at all on this system. It is also evident since on bootup I get an error about /var/lock not existing during bootmisc being popped off. I remerged baselayout and it's fixed now. I can't tell if the bug came from the stage tarball I used (a 2005.0 rc5) or if it was from the bootstrapping. Anyhow, unless you need any more information from me to perhaps see why this happened, let me know, otherwise, this works fine. thanks Shawn
not minicom's problem
