Bug 340121 – sys-devel/crossdev-20100814 installs broken cross-emerge

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Adam Nielsen 2010-10-08 08:16:20 UTC]

I just upgraded to the latest crossdev as per the Gentoo guide (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=1&chap=3) but the cross-emerge complains about missing variables.  It also complains about a bad version of Flash being installed which it is in my build environment (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) but not in the supposed emerge environment (i686-mingw32).

$ emerge-wrapper --init
mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu: Setting up symlinks
i686-mingw32: Setting up symlinks

$ i686-mingw32-emerge -v boost
PORTAGE_BZIP2_COMMAND setting is invalid: 'bzip2'
PORTAGE_BZIP2_COMMAND setting from make.globals is invalid: 'bzip2'
PORTAGE_BZIP2_COMMAND setting is invalid: 'bzip2'
PORTAGE_BZIP2_COMMAND setting from make.globals is invalid: 'bzip2'
PORTAGE_BZIP2_COMMAND setting is invalid: 'bzip2'
PORTAGE_BZIP2_COMMAND setting from make.globals is invalid: 'bzip2'
PORTAGE_BZIP2_COMMAND setting is invalid: 'bzip2'
PORTAGE_BZIP2_COMMAND setting from make.globals is invalid: 'bzip2'


!!! /usr/i686-mingw32/etc/make.profile is not a symlink and will probably prevent most merges.
!!! It should point into a profile within /usr/portage/profiles/
!!! (You can safely ignore this message when syncing. It's harmless.)



These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  NS   ] dev-libs/boost-1.42.0-r2 [1.39.0] USE="eselect -debug -doc -icu -mpi -python -static-libs -test -tools" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 0 kB

!!! The following installed packages are masked:
- www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.0.32.18 (masked by: package.mask, AdobeFlash-10 license(s))
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Tobias Heinlein <[e-mail]> (05 Jul 2010)
# Severe security issues (bug #322855)

A copy of the 'AdobeFlash-10' license is located at '/usr/portage/licenses/AdobeFlash-10'.

- dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.16 (masked by: dlj-1.1 license(s))
A copy of the 'dlj-1.1' license is located at '/usr/portage/licenses/dlj-1.1'.

For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.


 * ARCH is not set... Are you missing the
 * '/usr/i686-mingw32/etc/make.profile' symlink? Is the symlink correct?
 * Is your portage tree complete?

$ ls /usr/i686-mingw32/etc/make.profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Oct  7 15:21 /usr/i686-mingw32/etc/make.profile -> /usr/portage/profiles/embedded

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2010-10-08 09:52:41 UTC]

"/usr/portage/profiles/embedded" is not a valid profile.  even if it was, it makes no sense at all for mingw targets.

[Comment 2 Adam Nielsen 2010-10-08 11:31:28 UTC]

So what is a valid profile for mingw (none of them seem obvious) and why does emerge-wrapper create this symlink if it's not valid?