Bug 36791

Summary:	libtermcap-compat-1.2.3 fails to build on amd64
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Peter McGowan <peter>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	AMD64 Project <amd64>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	peter
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Peter McGowan 2003-12-30 02:05:13 UTC

When emerging the ebuild for libtermcap-compat-1.2.3 on an amd64 system, the make fails with an error:

chown: `bin.bin': invalid user

man chown now states that a dot separator is no longer valid for a user/group separator, so I then stepped through the installation using ebuild, and modified the Makefile to specify 

OWNER=bin:bin

This then compiled successfully.

I have subsequently noticed the libtermcap-compat bug that modifies the owner to root:root in the ebuild, so this may be a better longer-term fix in the Makefile.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-30 03:07:36 UTC

Peter was this emerge part of a coreutils emerge (5.0.91-r3)?  If so, that's kind of ironic, because coreutils-5.0.91-r3 restores chown's behaviour to accept the . as well as the :

Comment 2 Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-02-25 05:47:56 UTC

I can't reproduce this, please re-open if this still is a problem.