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Bug 488956

Summary: sys-power/apcupsd fails to buid without sys-apps/util-linux[tty-helpers] (or possibly sys-freebsd/freebsd-ubin)
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Wojciech Porczyk <wojciech>
Component: [OLD] Core systemAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: egorov_egor
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: build.log

Description Wojciech Porczyk 2013-10-21 22:11:02 UTC
Created attachment 361572 [details]
build.log

USE=-tty-helpers emerge -1 util-linux && emerge apcupsd fails because of

...
checking for mail... /bin/mail
checking for wall... no
configure: error: Missing required tool; need any one of: wall

...

full build.log attached

cf. /usr/portage/sys-apps/sysvinit/sysvinit-2.88-r5.ebuild:100

    elog "The mesg/mountpoint/sulogin/utmpdump/wall tools have been moved to sys-apps/util-linux."
Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-10-22 06:07:29 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 488306 ***