$ cat test-1.0.ebuild KEYWORDS=~x86 set Hello, world $ ebuild test-1.0.ebuild digest Please specify a valid command. Portage Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation How to use the ebuild command: The first argument to ebuild should be an existing .ebuild file. One or more of the following options can then be specified. If more than one option is specified, each will be executed in order. help : show this help screen setup : execute package specific setup actions fetch : download source archive(s) and patches digest : creates a digest and a manifest file for the package manifest : creates a manifest file for the package unpack : unpack/patch sources (auto-fetch if needed) compile : compile sources (auto-fetch/unpack if needed) test : test package (auto-fetch/unpack/compile if needed) preinst : execute pre-install instructions postinst : execute post-install instructions install : installs the package to the temporary install directory qmerge : merge image into live filesystem, recording files in db merge : does fetch, unpack, compile, install and qmerge prerm : execute pre-removal instructions postrm : execute post-removal instructions unmerge : remove package from live filesystem config : execute package specific configuration actions package : create tarball package in /var/pkg/All rpm : builds a RedHat RPM package clean : clean up all source and temporary files The following settings will be used for the ebuild process: package : test-1.0 slot : category : test description : system : i686-pc-linux-gnu c flags : -march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Wimplicit-function-declaration c++ flags : -march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer make flags : build mode : production (stripped) merge to : / Additionally, support for the following optional features will be enabled: x86 3dnow 3dnowext X alsa bindist cairo cdparanoia cjk crypt cups debugger divx dri dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc flac ftp gcc-libffi gif gmedia gpgme graphviz gtk iconv idn immqt input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 ithreads jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kdrive kernel_linux linguas_en linguas_en_GB lynxkeymap mbox mmx mmxext mozdevelop mudflap ncurses nethack nls no-old-linux noamazon nocxx nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl pango paste64 pcre pdf perl png ppds qt3 quicktime readline real reiser4 rtc ssl svg tcl theora truetype ucs2 unicode userland_GNU video_cards_radeon vim-pager vorbis wmp xim xine xorg aux_get(): (0) Error in test/test-1.0 ebuild. (1) Check for syntax error or corruption in the ebuild. (--debug) $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.2_pre1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1/vanilla, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17.11 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17.11 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Unknown app-admin/eselect-compiler: 2.0.0_rc2-r1 dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r3, 2.5-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: [Not Present] sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Wimplicit-function-declaration" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /lib/rcscripts/addons /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/var/dist" FEATURES="assume-digests autoconfig autopatch collision-protect cvs distlocks metadata-transfer notitles parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms sign strict stricter userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Xlinker --as-needed" LINGUAS="en_GB en" PKGDIR="/var/pkg" 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="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/cvs/gentoo-x86" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/etc/portage/overlay /etc/portage/overlay/enlightenment /etc/portage/overlay/sunrise" SYNC="rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X alsa bindist cairo cdparanoia cjk crypt cups debugger divx dri dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc flac ftp gcc-libffi gif gmedia gpgme graphviz gtk iconv idn immqt input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 ithreads jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kdrive kernel_linux linguas_en linguas_en_GB lynxkeymap mbox mmx mmxext mozdevelop mudflap ncurses nethack nls no-old-linux noamazon nocxx nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl pango paste64 pcre pdf perl png ppds qt3 quicktime readline real reiser4 rtc ssl svg tcl theora truetype ucs2 unicode userland_GNU video_cards_radeon vim-pager vorbis wmp xim xine xorg" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS I don't know if this is intended to be supported, but even if it's not, it would be nice if portage could give a clearer error message. And yes, this occurred in a real attempt at writing an ebuild: upstream releases in DDMMYYYY format, and I wanted to convert the ebuild's 1.0.YYYY.MM.DD format to that like this: set $(IFS=.; echo ${PV}) MY_PV=$5$4$3
starting from rev 4495, ebuild.sh uses EBUILD_SH_ARGS instead of $*, which should fix this.
This has been released in 2.1.2_pre1-r1.
