| Summary: | bootstrapping bash might require bison | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo/Alt | Reporter: | Rabbe Fogelholm <rabbe> |
| Component: | Prefix Support | Assignee: | Gentoo non-Linux Team <alt> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | Other | ||
| URL: | http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-solaris.xml | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
I'm not sure. This sounds like a installation of Solaris which is not full/complete. I cannot possibly cover all cases, so I feel I can only assume a full installation as the document says. Sorry. The workaround sounds good anyway. Fair enough. It may well be that the machines that I am struggling with have some kind of reduced Solaris installation. |
This comment refers to the February 4, 2007 version of the document that the URL refers to. The step emerge --oneshot bash did not work for me right away. There was a complain that yacc is needed. I was able to get past this point by doing emerge --oneshot bison Not sure what to suggest here: Always emerge bison just in case, or make some check and emerge it in case it seems necessary? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: