After the installation of the stable version of myodbc, it is requested to run : emerge --config =dev-db/myodbc-3.51.12 But it fails, because it looks for files in a wrong directory. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install myodbc-3.512.12 2. Run emerge --config =dev-db/myodbc-3.51.12 fails Actual Results: # emerge --config =dev-db/myodbc-3.51.12 Configuring pkg... * Building odbc.ini /usr/bin/m4: /var/db/pkg/dev-db/myodbc-3.51.12/files/odbc.ini.m4: No such file or directory * Building odbcinst.ini /usr/bin/m4: /var/db/pkg/dev-db/myodbc-3.51.12/files/odbcinst.ini.m4: No such file or directory * Installing MySQL ODBC driver ... [ ok ] * Installing sample MySQL ODBC DSN ... Expected Results: odbc.ini and odbcinst.ini should be built The missing files are located in the /usr/portage/dev-db/myodbc/files/ directory, not in /var/db/pkg/dev-db/myodbc-3.51.12/files # emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.26-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.26-gentoo-r3-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_Processor_3000+-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r14, 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.6-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -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/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="fr" 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/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X alsa berkdb bzip2 cairo cli cpudetection cracklib cups dbus dri dv dvdr dvdread dvi ecw exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac font-server fortran gcj gdal gdbm geos gif glade gnome gpm gps gsl gtk hal iconv imagemagick imlib isdnlog java javascript jpeg midi mmx mmxext mng mp3 mpeg mudflap nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl pkcs11 png postscript ppds pppd python readline reflection rtc samba session spl sqlite sqlite3 sse ssl subversion svg sysfs t1lib tcpd theora tiff transparent-proxy truetype unicode vorbis wifi win32codecs x86 xorg xulrunner zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 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 mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia fbdev vesa nv" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 159026 ***
