Bug 88010 – Ebuilds not finding files where they expect them

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Ray Malitzke 2005-04-05 01:25:59 UTC]

For example bind-tools-9.2.5.ebuild could no find as and ld during the configuration part of an emerge. This on a G4 ppc, 15 minutes earlier the same as and ld were declared missing on a different ebuild on an x86. At other times it happens with headers or with shared executables. Judicious linking of the missing components into /usr/lib /usr/include or from version specific names to generic names solves the problem.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Every time you execute emerge or make.
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Actual Results:  
The emerge or make aborts with mesage that xyz component can not be found

Expected Results:  
Found the components in the places traditionally used on UNIX systems.

As Gentoo is essentially a self-build system the complete segregation of tools
like all executables of tools, libs, headers into sub-sub-sub directories of
libexec, lib, generic-compiler directories seems to be selfdefeating. If, even
ebuilds --never mind no Gentoo originated packages -- can no find the like of as
and ld in /usr/bin, then something  is amiss. Please, please do not respond to
this by coming up with ever more complex schemes. People like myself with more
than 20 years UNIX experience know how to defeat such schemes or simply go to
another
distribution like Slackware or even BSD which are more flexible.
People with less experience will just flood you with help calls.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2005-04-05 05:52:32 UTC]

you neglected to post `emerge info` like the bug report page told you to

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2005-04-06 20:49:09 UTC]

get back to us ... chances are you just need to run `binutils-config 1`