renameutils uses an interesting method of installing itself. ie.: [ -f $(bindir)/qmv ] || (echo $(LN_S) qcmd $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/qmv ; $(LN_S) qcmd $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/qmv) as you can see, the test doesn't honor the DESTDIR variable. this causes the installation of renameutils in portage to *not* install symlinks when rebuilding(because it wont create new symlinks and portage will remove the old ones when unmerging) the attached patch adds the missing DESTDIR to the tests, AND a mkdir -p because the install-exec-local expects the $(bindir) to be already created by other install rules but this isn't always the case with parallel make Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge --unmerge renameutils (if you already have them installed) 2.emerge renameutils && equery files renameutils 3.emerge renameutils && equery files renameutils 4.compare the results of (2) and (3) Actual Results: in the second install the icp,imv,qcp,qmv symlinks wont be installed Expected Results: the two runs should produce identical results $ emerge --info (not that it's relevant here imo) Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz Timestamp of tree: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.4 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r9 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ABI="amd64" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ANT_HOME="/usr/share/ant-core" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ARCH="amd64" ASFLAGS_x86="--32" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CDEFINE_amd64="__x86_64__" CDEFINE_x86="__i386__" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CFLAGS_x86="-m32 -L/emul/linux/x86/lib -L/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CHOST_amd64="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CHOST_x86="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CLASSPATH="." 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Created attachment 148141 [details, diff] fix for the symlink instalation problem
Thanks for reporting, I will look into this and probably use your patch!
Thanks for the patch! Fixed.