I'm trying to compile fcron: [ebuild R ] sys-process/fcron-3.0.1-r1 USE="-debug doc pam" 0 kB Fails: checking sendmail... /usr/sbin/sendmail checking shell... /bin/sh checking editor... configure: error: File vim is not an executable file !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /Gentoo/portage/tmp/portage/fcron-3.0.1-r1/work/fcron-3.0.1/config.log !!! ERROR: sys-process/fcron-3.0.1-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1545: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 940: Called src_compile fcron-3.0.1-r1.ebuild, line 66: Called econf '--with-pam' '--without-selinux' '--without-debug' '--with-username=cron' '--with-groupname=cron' '--with-piddir=/var/run' '--with-etcdir=/etc/fcron' '--with-spooldir=/var/spool/cron' '--with-fifodir=/var/run' '--with-sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail' '--with-fcrondyn=yes' '--with-editor=vim' '--with-shell=/bin/sh' '--with-dsssl-dir=/usr/share/sgml/stylesheets/dsssl/docbook' '--with-rootname=root' '--with-rootgroup=root' ebuild.sh, line 541: Called die !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. (chroot1) dewup-ww02 pkg # which vim /usr/bin/vim (chroot1) dewup-ww02 pkg # ls -la `which vim` -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2359764 27. Jul 17:03 /usr/bin/vim (chroot1) dewup-ww02 pkg # file `which vim` /usr/bin/vim: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped vim *IS* executable. I ran the emerge like this: EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim VISUAL=/usr/bin/vim emerge -1v fcron Is this a regression of bug #65263 ? (chroot2) dewup-ww02 var # emerge --info Portage 2.1.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1/vanilla, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r3.05 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r3.05 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.1 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: 2.0.0_rc2-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r2 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.0.0_rc1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/Gentoo/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://localhost/~vz6tml/gentoo-files http://dewup-ww02.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net/~vz6tml/gentoo-files http://localhost/gentoo-files/ http://dewup-ww02.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net/gentoo-files/ http://localhost/~vz6tml/gentoo-files/ http://cifs-srvr1.europe.delphiauto.net/~vz6tml/Misc._Software/Gentoo/ http://alexander.skwar.name/~askwar/stuff/gentoo/ http://localhost:60081/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://localhost:60080/pub/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://localhost:60082/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://localhost:60083/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://localhost:60084/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org/ " LANG="de_DE.utf8" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/Gentoo/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/Gentoo/portage/tmp" PORTDIR="/Gentoo/portage/tree" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/Gentoo/portage/local-tree/misc" SYNC="rsync://localhost:10873/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acl apache2 apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt cups dbus dlloader dri emboss encode fam firefox foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib isdnlog jikes jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nis nls noaudio nptl nptlonly offensive ogg pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vorbis xml xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_void kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU video_cards_ati video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_none" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 93186 [details] config.log
In my env, I had EDITOR=vim set. After changing this to EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim, it compiles just fine. *HOWEVER*: Why did EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim VISUAL=/usr/bin/vim emerge -1v fcron NOT work?
Just for the record, I just ran into this same problem, and explicitly setting EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim worked as well (even though it was set to that already).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124904 ***
(In reply to comment #2) > Why did > > EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim VISUAL=/usr/bin/vim emerge -1v fcron > > NOT work? configure is a new program, run by emerge. you have to *export* EDITOR in order to make it available to configure.
