Building embedded system as outlined in the Gentoo HOWTO. Starting with stage3 embedded x86, not sure if running bootstrap is necessary, but upon running it reaches step [3/3] and give the error "cannot resolve virtual package". Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. cd <$uclibc>/usr/portage/scripts 2. ./bootstrap.sh -v -p [[ (0/3) Locating packages ]] * Using baselayout : virtual/baselayout * Using portage : >=sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.22 * Using os-headers : virtual/os-headers * Using binutils : sys-devel/binutils * Using gcc : sys-devel/gcc * Using libc : virtual/libc * Using texinfo : sys-apps/texinfo * Using zlib : sys-libs/zlib * Using ncurses : sys-libs/ncurses ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[ (1/3) Configuring environment ]] * GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" * PORTDIR="/usr/portage" * DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" * PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" * PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" * CFLAGS="-march=i486 -0s -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" * CHOST="i486-gentoo-linux-uclibc" * CXXFLAGS="-march=i486 -0s -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" * MAKEOPTS="-j2" * ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" * FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks nodoc noinfo noman sandbox sfperms strict" * STAGE1_USE="uclibc" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[ (2/3) Updating portage ]] * Executing: USE=-* build bootstrap uclibc emerge --oneshot -p -v >=sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.22 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.17 227 kB [ebuild N ] app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.15 -caps 52 kB [ebuild U ] net-misc/rsync-2.6.9-r2 [2.6.0-r4] -acl -ipv6 -static -xinetd 792 kB [ebuild N ] dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r5 -bindist -gmp -test 150 kB [ebuild N ] sys-apps/help2man-1.36.4 (-nls) 83 kB [ebuild U ] sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-4-r3 [2-r1] 0 kB [ebuild U ] sys-devel/m4-1.4.9 [1.4.2-r1] -examples (-nls) 595 kB [ebuild U ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.61 [2.59-r6] -emacs 1,364 kB [ebuild U ] sys-devel/automake-wrapper-3-r1 [1-r1] 0 kB [ebuild NS ] sys-devel/automake-1.10 872 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.7-r1 [5.2.1-r5] -acl (-nls) (-selinux) -static -xattr 5,222 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.2 [2.0.51.19] +build* -doc (-elibc_FreeBSD) (-elibc_glibc) +elibc_uclibc* -epydoc -linguas_pl (-selinux) (-userland_Darwin) +userland_GNU* 340 kB Total size of downloads: 9,702 kB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[ (3/3) Emerging packages ]] * Executing: emerge --oneshot -p -v virtual/os-headers sys-apps/texinfo sys-devel/binutils sys-devel/gcc virtual/libc virtual/baselayout sys-libs/zlib These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies /!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild. !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/libiconv-0) *This all being done on the host hard drive. Host is a pentium3 system running gentoo 2.6.20 kernel.
Please search. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 114798 ***
I will try to update portage, however portage is dated 05/15/2007, not to sure if this will fix the problem.