Bug 516476 – bootstrap fails due to python-2.7.6-r1

• Product: Gentoo/Alt
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description iloveosxzfs 2014-07-06 02:56:06 UTC]

bootstrap fails due python-2.7.6-r1. As a temporary workaround, I added "=dev-lang/python-2.7.6-r1" to etc/portage/package.mask.

Error:
running install_egg_info
Writing /Users/joe/Gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.7.6-r1/image//Users/joe/Gentoo/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/Python-2.7.6-py2.7.egg-info
rm /Users/joe/Gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.7.6-r1/image//Users/joe/Gentoo/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_sysconfigdata.py*
ln -fs "../../../Python" "/Users/joe/Gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.7.6-r1/image//Users/joe/Gentoo/usr/lib/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/config/libpython2.7.a"
ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/Users/joe/Gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.7.6-r1/image//Users/joe/Gentoo/usr/lib/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/config/libpython2.7.a’: No such file or directory
Makefile:1220: recipe for target 'frameworkinstallmaclib' failed
make: *** [frameworkinstallmaclib] Error 1
ERROR: dev-lang/python-2.7.6-r1::gentoo_prefix failed (install phase):
emake failed

[Comment 1 iloveosxzfs 2014-07-06 02:57:17 UTC]

Created attachment 380278 [details]
full build.log, compressed

[Comment 2 iloveosxzfs 2014-07-06 02:58:06 UTC]

Created attachment 380280 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 3 iloveosxzfs 2014-07-06 02:58:32 UTC]

Created attachment 380282 [details]
emerge -pqv

[Comment 4 iloveosxzfs 2014-07-06 02:59:22 UTC]

Created attachment 380284 [details]
ebuild environment

[Comment 5 iloveosxzfs 2014-07-06 09:34:16 UTC]

So while the "temporary workaround" worked at first and let python compile, the bootstrap fails again later with the same error, but this time with respect to 2.7.5-r4 while re-emerging python.

I also just checked on my pre-existing prefix installation, and though python 2.7.6-r1 is installed successfully previously, it fails in the same place as the bootstrap if I try to re-emerge it. So this is a more general regression, not just one affecting bootstrap.

[Comment 6 iloveosxzfs 2014-07-06 15:55:19 UTC]

I doubt this is the best way to fix the problem, but these patches together seemed to fix the problem:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ilovezfs/25e20f0f4e33a8fddbf6/raw/6be8b39ce368937b132a8179d7acf66a1ba583c0/python-ebuild.patch

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ilovezfs/fd9a45fe62260a21760b/raw/bc6cb54f30e4cf796c8ffbf583af2a91e5157bd2/python-makefile-pre.patch

[Comment 7 iloveosxzfs 2014-07-06 15:58:15 UTC]

Created attachment 380310 [details, diff]
Patch for Makefile.pre.in

[Comment 8 iloveosxzfs 2014-07-06 15:58:53 UTC]

Created attachment 380312 [details, diff]
Patch for python-2.7.6-r1.ebuild

[Comment 9 vice 2014-07-09 02:01:27 UTC]

Bug happens on my system too. This bug affects more than one user. Status should be set to confirmed.

[Comment 10 vice 2014-07-09 02:06:14 UTC]

Same bug on my system. This bug affects more than one user. Status should be changed to confirmed.

[Comment 11 NaWi.is 2014-07-13 11:32:07 UTC]

Hello !

I am new here so I am sorry, if something is missing.

I downloaded the bootstrap script yesterday for the first time and had the same problem. This happened on Mac OS X 10.9.4 Mavericks with Xcode 5 and also on the same machine with 10.7.5 Lion with Xcode 4 and the old CLI tools.

Please let me know, if you need more informations. Thanks for solving this bug.

[Comment 12 iloveosxzfs 2014-07-19 15:46:39 UTC]

Another workaround I've found works is not to use the "aqua" USE flag with python-2.7.6-r1:

cd ${EPREFIX}
echo '=dev-lang/python-2.7.6-r1 -aqua' >> etc/portage/package.use

[Comment 13 NaWi.is 2014-07-19 21:00:21 UTC]

Thanks, that solved my problem ... but if you run the bootstrap-prefix.sh script the first time and it fails, then ${EPREFIX} is not set.

If 

echo ${EPREFIX}

returns nothing, then the correct command is 

echo '=dev-lang/python-2.7.6-r1 -aqua' >> $HOME/Gentoo/etc/portage/package.use

Or replace $HOME with the path you used as you run the script the first time.

[Comment 14 iloveosxzfs 2014-07-20 05:26:53 UTC]

Right. I did not mean to imply that your shell would magically know where you chose to put your Prefix installation. ;)

[Comment 15 NaWi.is 2014-07-20 05:56:19 UTC]

It was not meaned bad from my side.

I added the information only for people (like me) which are new to Gentoo-Prefix and had the same problem during the first run of the script.

[Comment 16 Fabian Groffen 2014-08-12 08:19:24 UTC]

See the same thing on Lion

[Comment 17 Fabian Groffen 2014-08-12 11:43:20 UTC]

Fix committed, I managed to get further in the bootstrap now.