Bug 875890 – Install phase: cannot find dosym and newins (SPARC) (firefox)

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Red 2022-10-07 17:51:47 UTC]

I've been modifying www-client/firefox-102.3.0 to work on my sparc machine. This has mostly been adding in new patches, but also includes using a 'fake node' of sorts to get around the node requirement (node does not support sparc), and some minor ebuild tweaks. 

It compiles successfully (\o/) and the binary does in fact run and work. However, during the install phase, errors come up like this: `/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-102.3.0/temp/environment: line 5623: newins: command not found`. 

I tried reinstalling portage and did another `ebuild firefox-102.3.0.ebuild clean merge`, and the error persists. 

My emerge --info, build log, and modified www-client/firefox are coming up shortly.

[Comment 1 Sam James 2022-10-07 17:55:41 UTC]

In addition to the info you're working on adding...

- Does it happen if you use emerge(1) instead of ebuild(1)? 
- Please attach the environment file too (/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-102.3.0/temp/environment).
- Have you noticed this with any other packages?
- Could you try downgrading Portage to 3.0.30 and see if it happens then?

[Comment 2 Red 2022-10-07 17:56:23 UTC]

Created attachment 822751 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 3 Red 2022-10-07 17:57:15 UTC]

Created attachment 822754 [details]
emerge -pqv

[Comment 4 Red 2022-10-07 18:00:25 UTC]

Have not tried with emerge, I will queue that up shortly :)

Have never had a problem like this before, no.

If trying it with emerge fails, I will attempt downgrading portage to 3.0.30, and repeat :D

[Comment 5 Red 2022-10-07 18:02:37 UTC]

Created attachment 822757 [details]
the enviroment file

[Comment 6 Red 2022-10-07 18:03:06 UTC]

Created attachment 822760 [details]
full build log

[Comment 7 Red 2022-10-07 18:07:32 UTC]

Created attachment 822763 [details]
the modified ebuild, filesdir, etc

[Comment 8 Red 2022-10-07 18:24:57 UTC]

Created attachment 822766 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 9 Red 2022-10-07 18:25:37 UTC]

Created attachment 822769 [details]
emerge -pqv

[Comment 10 Red 2022-10-07 18:26:29 UTC]

Created attachment 822772 [details]
the enviroment file

[Comment 11 Red 2022-10-07 18:27:35 UTC]

sorry, added some attachments as pastebin html instead of plain. should all be fixed now ^.^

[Comment 12 Red 2022-10-07 22:01:51 UTC]

Tried with emerge. Same error. Downgraded portage to 3.0.30-r5. Same error. :/

If it would make it easier, would anyone want ssh access to my system?

[Comment 13 Mike Gilbert 2022-10-08 01:51:20 UTC]

Your modified ebuild sets PATH to a value that does not contain the ebuild-helpers directory. Don't do that.

[Comment 14 Red 2022-10-08 04:54:08 UTC]

Aaaaaaah sorry, I don't even remember doing that. :/

I appreciate your help :), running now without the path change