On upgrading to portage-2.2_rc1, /etc/make.conf.example no longer exists. emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc1 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r5-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6700_@_2.66GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r11, 2.5.2-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.2.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.62 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.25-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -pipe -ggdb" 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/share/config /var/bind /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y" FEATURES="buildsyspkg distlocks installsources parallel-fetch preserve-libs sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/ http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="" LINGUAS="en_GB en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/musicbrainz /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth bonobo branding browserplugin bzip2 bzlib cairo caps cddb cdparanoia cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups curl cvs cxx dbus directfb doc dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd ethereal evo examples exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gcj gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal iconv icq idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack java javascript jbig jce jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdehiddenvisibility kerberos ladspa latex lcms ldap leim libgda libnotify libsamplerate libwww lirc lm_sensors logrotate lua m17n-lib mad matroska mbox midi mikmod milter mime mmap mmx mng modplug mono mozilla mp3 mpeg mpi mplayer msn mudflap musepack ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openmp oscar oss pam pcntl pcre pdf perl png postgres ppds pppd profile pulseaudio python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline recode reflection ruby sasl sdl session sharedmem sndfile snmp sockets sox speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysvipc tcl tcltk tcpd theora threads tiff tk truetype uicktime unicode usb v4l v4l2 vim-syntax vorbis wavpack win32codecs wmf wxwindows x264 x86 xattr xcb xface xine xml xml2 xorg xulrunner xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" 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" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd 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 dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" CAMERAS="canon ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB en" LIRC_DEVICES="asusdh" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa fbdev vga" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
It's been moved to /usr/share/portage/config/ along with make.globals. Maybe we should install a symlink in the old location, like we do for make.globals. I was also a bit confused when I noticed this for the first time.
(In reply to comment #1) > It's been moved to /usr/share/portage/config/ along with make.globals. Maybe we > should install a symlink in the old location, like we do for make.globals. I > was also a bit confused when I noticed this for the first time. > In which case it would be helpful if the man page make.conf(5) were to reference the new location rather than /etc/make.conf.example
(In reply to comment #1) > It's been moved to /usr/share/portage/config/ along with make.globals. Maybe we > should install a symlink in the old location, like we do for make.globals. No. For make.globals, the symlink is required as 3rd party tools rely on the old location, which is not the case for make.conf.example. A simple postinst message should be enough to alert people about the move.
*** Bug 274944 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I don't know when this changed, but portage now installs make.conf.example as /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example
