Bug 273934 – vtk-5.2.0-r1 fails to emerge with "... doins: Argument list to long"

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Bryan Green 2009-06-13 00:05:15 UTC]

vtk-5.2.0-r1 emerge fails during doc installation.  Here are the last several lines of output:

running install_scripts
 * Installing API docs. This may take some time.
/var/tmp/portage/sci-libs/vtk-5.2.0-r1/temp/environment: line 5167: /usr/lib64/portage/bin/ebuild-helpers/doins: Argument list too long
 * 
 * ERROR: sci-libs/vtk-5.2.0-r1 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_install
 *             environment, line 5167:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *           doins -r ./* || die "Failed to install docs";
 *  The die message:
 *   Failed to install docs


Reproducible: Always




emerge --info:
Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.22-gentoo-r8-x86_64-Dual_Core_AMD_Opteron-tm-_Processor_275-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:45:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r6, 2.5.4-r2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=opteron -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/bonobo-activation /etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dev.d /etc/devfs.d /etc/env.d /etc/esd /etc/eselect /etc/fonts /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/foomatic /etc/gconf /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0 /etc/gtk /etc/gtk-2.0 /etc/hal /etc/imlib /etc/init.d /etc/openoffice /etc/pango /etc/ppp /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/sgml /etc/sound /etc/ssl /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev /etc/udev/rules.d /etc/vga /etc/wget /etc/xdg /etc/xml /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=opteron -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/bgreen"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 arts berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cscope cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd evo f77 fam firefox font-server fortran gdbm gif glitz gpm gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde ldap libnotify logrotate mad mbox midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nfs nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb userlocales vim-with-x vorbis xinerama xml xorg xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Bryan Green 2009-06-13 00:11:09 UTC]

Created attachment 194464 [details]
the build log

[Comment 2 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) 2009-07-18 03:38:40 UTC]

Hi Bryan,

Is this still an issue with vtk-5.4.2? Seems to work fine for me.

Thanks,
Markus

[Comment 3 Bryan Green 2009-07-24 21:49:45 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Hi Bryan,
> 
> Is this still an issue with vtk-5.4.2? Seems to work fine for me.


It is no longer a problem with 5.4.2.

[Comment 4 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) 2009-12-19 18:14:15 UTC]

Great, thanks!

Closing this then.

cheers,
Markus