Bug 406103

Summary:	symlinking /bin/sh to /bin/busybox can break some ebuilds
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	b0nafide <bonafide>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	trivial	CC:	bonafide
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description b0nafide 2012-02-28 04:19:37 UTC

I was very lazy and symlinked /bin/sh to /bin/busybox to edit some bourne shell scripts and promptly forgot about it until my latest emerge world. 

dev-python/numpy and media-video/mplayer both failed to link because libraries were being created with busybox's ar (which doesn't support creating an index). 

Steps to reproduce, ie. with numpy: 

# ln -s /bin/busybox /bin/sh
# emerge dev-python/numpy
 - observe link failures
# which ar
 - note the use of busybox's ar instead of the ar in our $PATH

There may be other packages other than numpy and mplayer effected by this oddity.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-02-28 17:05:36 UTC

This is to be expected.