There is an error in the mozilla-firefox 1.0.3 ebuild in the src_install() function: a backslash is missing in a sed command. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 56540 [details, diff] mozilla-firefox-1.0.3.ebuild.patch Add a backslash to a sed command
I'm seeing this bug also. The error output you get while emerge is installing looks like this: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sed: option requires an argument -- e Usage: sed [OPTION]... {script-only-if-no-other-script} [input-file]... -n, --quiet, --silent suppress automatic printing of pattern space -e script, --expression=script add the script to the commands to be executed -f script-file, --file=script-file add the contents of script-file to the commands to be executed -i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX] edit files in place (makes backup if extension supplied) -l N, --line-length=N specify the desired line-wrap length for the `l' command --posix disable all GNU extensions. -r, --regexp-extended use extended regular expressions in the script. -s, --separate consider files as separate rather than as a single continuous long stream. -u, --unbuffered load minimal amounts of data from the input files and flush the output buffers more often --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit If no -e, --expression, -f, or --file option is given, then the first non-option argument is taken as the sed script to interpret. All remaining arguments are names of input files; if no input files are specified, then the standard input is read. E-mail bug reports to: bonzini@gnu.org . Be sure to include the word ``sed'' somewhere in the ``Subject:'' field. /usr/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-1.0.3.ebuild: line 143: s:/lib/firefox-1.0.3:/lib/MozillaFirefox:g: No such file or directory -------------------------------------------------------------------------- After checking the ebuild carefully vs. the installed files, it seems this bug has no actual effect on the installed files. However, the error message is quite annoying and likely to cause other people in the future to waste time tracking it down. :-( I therefore highly recommend applying the patch proposed by Fabio Rossi.
The same error for mozilla-firefox-1.0.4 ebuild
Resolved on 17 May 2005, thanks to Saleem Abdulrasool.
