Bug 3593 – xfree-4.2.0-r12 ebuild fails

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Ryan Dooley 2002-06-10 14:34:56 UTC]

In an upgrade from 1.1a to 1.2, xfree-4.2.0-r12 fails to install with:

cp: `XftConfig`: Argument list too long

from /var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r12/work/xc/lib/Xft

Function src_install, Line 9, Exitcode 2

[Comment 1 Ryan Dooley 2002-06-11 12:02:33 UTC]

More... moving into /var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-12/work/xc/lib/Xft

Doing a simple ``make install" shows that

+ install -c -m 0444 XftConfig /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig
cp: `XftConfig': Argument list too long

Intresting enough, a second ``make install" gives

Not overwriting existing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig
cp: `XftCofnfig': Argument list too long

[Comment 2 Ryan Dooley 2002-06-12 09:49:11 UTC]

Ok, I built 4.2.0-r12 on another machine with the --buildpkg option to emerge. 
The wierd thing is that both of these machines are in sync with one another and
I had expected the build to fail but it didn't.  I moved the package over to the
machine having the build problems and installed the tar.bz2 there.

[Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-06-17 13:42:11 UTC]

Sorry, forgot to reply before I went away for the weekend.  This seems like
another case which is caused when you merge fileutils with "acl" in your
USE.  Check that you dont have it in USE, or merge by doing:

# USE="-acl" emerge fileutiles

And then try Xfree again.

As for a fix for this ... Ill have to look into it.

[Comment 4 Ryan Dooley 2002-06-17 15:31:16 UTC]

Argh! :-)

Thanks Martin.  That was it.  Turns out I missed it in my USE="" line.  I must
be blind.