| Summary: | net-mail/metamail-2.7.45.3 does not yet work | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo/Alt | Reporter: | Tobias Hahn <tobhahn> |
| Component: | Mac OSX | Assignee: | Gentoo for Mac OS X <ppc-macos> |
| Status: | RESOLVED CANTFIX | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | PPC | ||
| OS: | OS X | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
sharutils is a bit problematic I think. The package provides on linux: /usr/bin/mail-files /usr/bin/mailshar /usr/bin/remsync /usr/bin/shar /usr/bin/unshar /usr/bin/uudecode /usr/bin/uuencode On my OSX I don't have mail-files, mailshar, remsync and unshar. libtool is an autotools component. Running glibtoolize doesn't help either. During configure it says "creating libtool", so I guess you'll have to hack configure for now. I don't know a quick solution for now. Error is due to libtool/autoconf/-make not understanding that on Darwin "ar" complains when you try to make an archive with no members. According to a GNU manual, this is intended though. I'm not sure how to fix it (properly). |
metamail has the following problems preventing it to compile: -depends on sharutils which collide with BSD sharutils =when compiling, at some stage in the makefile, the command ar cru .libs/libreplace.al is issued. With GNU ar, this command creates an empty archive (what the authors probably want at that stage of compilation). BSD ar gives the error below. ar is called from a file called libtool in the compile directory. I have no clue where this libtool is generated from (configure, ebuild author, portage, package author). I'd like to get this working, so please help: Who is responsible for libtool? Is there an easy workaround? What is the proper procedure to fix this? Making all in replace /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -O2 -pipe -o libreplace.la mkdir .libs rm -fr .libs/libreplace.la .libs/libreplace.* .libs/libreplace.* ar cru .libs/libreplace.al ar: no archive members specified usage: ar -d [-TLsv] archive file ... ar -m [-TLsv] archive file ... ar -m [-abiTLsv] position archive file ... ar -p [-TLsv] archive [file ...] ar -q [-cTLsv] archive file ... ar -r [-cuTLsv] archive file ... ar -r [-abciuTLsv] position archive file ... ar -t [-TLsv] archive [file ...] ar -x [-ouTLsv] archive [file ...] make[1]: *** [libreplace.la] Error 1 make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 !!! ERROR: net-mail/metamail-2.7.45.3 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 35, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) PS. I am well aware that metamail is not even tagged ~ppc-macos... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.