Bug 143236

Summary:	PLATFORM Environment
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Daniel Glaser <daniel.glaser>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Daniel Glaser 2006-08-08 12:00:21 UTC

After installing the Xilinx (http://www.xilinx.com) Web-Pack (a free Programmable Logic Development Environment from worlds FPGA leader, which is unfortunately not included in Gentoo), I had strange Problems with emerging some Packages (Latest problem: qt-4.1.4). Always the Path to mkspecs was not correctly. The last few emerges I solved this problem by simply editing the ebuild and setting the PLATFORM manually to "linux-g++" (instead of lin as it was while encountering this error). Now, after tracing back the reason, why this is happening, I found that /etc/env.d/99Webpack was the source of this setting. Because there is no other env.d-file on my system that uses this variable, the value of this should be generated in the ebuild itself, that it won't be hurt by non-Gentoo packages.

The error can be traced back by setting PLATFORM="lin" in a temporary file in env.d or setting it by export (?)

Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-08 12:13:03 UTC

not quite sure what this is about, but doesn't seem to be portage related.

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-08 12:14:58 UTC

No idea what installs /etc/env.d/99Webpack...

Comment 3 Daniel Glaser 2006-08-08 12:17:07 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> No idea what installs /etc/env.d/99Webpack... 
For sure the Xilinx WebPack I described above...

Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-08 12:19:38 UTC

Well, in that case I fail to see why are you filing a bug; it's not in the tree at all.

Comment 5 Daniel Glaser 2006-08-08 12:56:31 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> Well, in that case I fail to see why are you filing a bug; it's not in the tree
> at all.

It's because no package I know uses this Environment-Variable and it is never set. But the qt-Installation reacts on it, if it is set. This is a strange behavior in my eyes. And I think, the Xilinx-WebPack is used by many people in the near future. (When it get's available in Gentoo)