Bug 71720 – x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4: circular symlink

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Tuan Van (RETIRED) 2004-11-18 21:04:16 UTC]

# emerge xorg-x11 -vp

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4  -3dfx -3dnow +bitmap-fonts +cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx -doc -font-server -hardened -insecure-drivers +ipv6 -minimal +mmx +nls +opengl +pam -sdk +sse -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) -xprint -xv 0 kB

# ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  6 Nov 18 13:17 lib -> ../lib

# emerge info
Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-rc1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10-rc1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.6
distcc 2.18 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache confcache distlocks parallel-fetch prelink sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox verify-rdepend"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j7"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/overlay"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acpi alsa apache2 arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr cjk composite crypt cups dba dga dv dvd dvdr encode f77 fam fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran gd gd-external gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlibipv6 java javascript jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww mad md5sum mikmod mmx mozcalendar mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres prelude python qt quicktime readline real samba sasl sdl session slang snmp spell sse sse2 ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype usb x86 xml xml2 xmms xv xvid yv12 zlib linguas_en linguas_vi"

[Comment 1 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2004-11-18 22:09:05 UTC]

What's `readlink -f /usr/X11R6/lib` give?

[Comment 2 Tuan Van (RETIRED) 2004-11-18 22:45:29 UTC]

# readlink -f /usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib

[Comment 3 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-01-28 23:59:50 UTC]

Can you reproduce this with the current ebuild? Please reopen when you respond.