Bug 13376 – ebuild perl-5.8.0-r8 doesn't build

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Guy 2003-01-06 12:15:37 UTC]

Emerging newly unmasked (Jan 6, 2003) version perl-5.8.0-r8 doesn't build.

Aborts with the messages:

* Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE!  Value for $EPATCH_SOURCE is:
*
* /var/tmp/portage/perl-5.8.0-r8/work/patch


If 'patch' is supposed to be a file or directory, it doesn't exist. The only
directory below 'work' is 'perl-5.8.0'.

[Comment 1 Guy 2003-01-06 12:30:49 UTC]

There has been posted a work-around in the gentoo forums here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28907

I'm off to try it myself. :-)

[Comment 2 Guy 2003-01-06 13:15:53 UTC]

naransanker's suggested fix solves the problem:

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I fixed this by editing the ebuild. It works and installs for me. Here is what I
did -

in ---------
src_unpack() {

------------
else
# Fix the definition of 'int sockatmark(int);' in perl.h to have __THROW.
# This fixes bug #12605.
# <[e-mail]> (28 Dec 2002).
cd ${S}; mkdir ${WORKDIR}/patch; epatch
${FILESDIR}/${P}-sockatmark-should-__THROW.patch
fi
}
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I added the mkdir ${WORKDIR}/patch; 
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[Comment 3 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) 2003-01-06 17:09:03 UTC]

emerge sync again. the patch is there, it was missed in the initial import and
added at most an hour later.

[Comment 4 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) 2003-01-06 17:09:30 UTC]

*** Bug 13371 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 Guy 2003-01-06 21:35:30 UTC]

Yes indeed. It does now work properly. :-)

[Comment 6 Guy 2003-01-07 22:28:52 UTC]

This has now worked well on two different machine for me.  I have no problem
with this being marked fixed. :-)

Thank you very, very much!

[Comment 7 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) 2003-01-10 06:06:13 UTC]

fixed (i hate these mandatory comments)