The firebird USE flag is masked by /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.mask. It is unmasked for x86 in /usr/portage/profiles/arch/x86/use.mask, but not in /usr/portage/profiles/arch/amd64/use.mask, however the comments in these files seem to suggest that it should have been unmasked. Is this the case? profiles/base/use.mask: ... # Diego Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org> (4 Jan 2007) # Mask the flags for PHP that are available only on x86 sybase-ct ingres birdstep adabas filepro pfpro informix empress empress-bcs sybase frontbase dbmaker esoob solid # Shared with amd64 oci8 oracle7 firebird db2 ... profiles/arch/x86/use.mask: ... # Diego Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org> (4 Jan 2007) # Unmask the flags for PHP that are available only on x86 -fdftk -sybase-ct -ingres -birdstep -adabas -filepro -pfpro -informix -empress -empress-bcs -sybase -frontbase -dbmaker -esoob -solid # Shared with amd64 -oci8 -oracle7 -firebird -db2 ... profiles/arch/amd64/use.mask: ... # Diego Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org> (4 Jan 2007) # Unmask the flags for PHP that are available only on x86/amd64 -oci8 -oracle7 -db2 ... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Regardless of actual intentions, the existing configuration is one that is supposed to cause the firebird flag to be masked on amd64: $ grep -r firebird profiles profiles/arch/powerpc/use.mask:# Keep and eye on firebird and interbase as pair profiles/arch/x86/use.mask:-firebird profiles/base/use.mask:firebird profiles/default/bsd/use.mask:firebird profiles/hardened/amd64/use.mask:#-firebird - commented since firebird has been pushed back to ~amd64 profiles/hardened/x86/use.mask:-firebird
There was a new version http://downloads.sourceforge.net/firebird/Firebird-2.5.0.26074-0.tar.bz2 * New SuperClassic Architecture Firebird 2.5 introduces a new architecture, tagged "SuperClassic", to gain better leverage from multi-core and multi-CPU hardware environments and improve resource usage for systems with large numbers of users and huge databases. * Audit System audit tracing and user trace sessions via the Services API enable nearly real-time monitoring and analysis of everything going on in a database * Cross-database queries Firebird 2.5 opens the way for Firebird database instances to query one another and to exchange information * Enhanced user management User management becomes accessible and flexible through SQL requests submitted from user databases * Other features include autonomous transactions within PSQL modules (stored procedures, triggers, SQL blocks), support for regular expressions as arguments in SQL using the SIMILAR TO predicate, asynchronous cancellation of connections, enhancements of monitoring capabilities and much more.
Er, and how is there being a new version relevant to this report? Yes, it is performing as configured, my question was just that it doesn't seem to be configured as intended. Packages build just fine with the firebird useflag. I'm not really using them though, so I can't confirm there are no runtime issues. The actual firebird package also builds though, and isn't masked on amd64 in any way. I posted the bug report as a result of this forum thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6424931
This use flag does not affect the installation of firebird but it does affect the installation of php on an amd64 system. I have recently had this problem and reported it to Diego Petten who seems to be responsible for these flags. The brackets are the problem. [ebuild N ] dev-lang/php-5.2.14 USE="berkdb bzip2 ...<other stuff>... (-firebird)" 8,852 kB Basically, try and emerge php on an amd64 system for the 10.0 profile and you will see this (if you enable the interbase flag): * USE: amd64 berkdb bzip2 cgi cli crypt ctype curl elibc_glibc fileinfo filter gd gdbm hash iconv ipv6 json kernel_linux multilib nls phar posix readline session simplexml sockets sqlite ssl threads tokenizer truetype unicode userland_GNU xml xmlreader xmlwriter zlib You will notice that firebird is not present! Anyway, after finding this and adding the "-firebird" line to my profile/arch/amd64/use.mask file everything works as expected and, more importantly, as it should. Good luck.
I just ran into this problem when trying to emerge dev-python/sqlalchemy with firebird support on an amd64 system.
The mask is likely a left over remnant of some past fubar, but if it still exists for a reason. I would like to know why, so I can modify firebird or take some other action to correct.
I've been using it now over a month on a system, no problems encountered so far.
looking that the file (base/use.mask) it seems like Diego put that flag in there. Diego do we still need it there? I guess not so we can unmask this flag on amd64 I guess
*** Bug 365079 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
+ 01 May 2011; Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> use.mask: + Unmasking firebird use flag. Bug #337451 +
Thanks.
(In reply to comment #10) > + 01 May 2011; Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> use.mask: > + Unmasking firebird use flag. Bug #337451 > + I suppose it's been said elsewhere but the change was erroneous: the "=" in front of dev-php is invalid, so it should be corrected.
Yeah sorry about that. I think it is fixed now
Well, hate to say this, but it's gone again. I have firebird in my make.conf: ... ... ... # These are the USE flags that were used in addition to what is provided by the # profile used for building. USE="bash-completion chm declarative dhcpcd dirac firebird lzma matroska mmx mpi-threads nvidia ogg123 private-headers samba schroedinger sse sse2 static-libs subversion symlink theora xinerama xvmc -bluetooth -emacs -gdu -gif -gtk -ipv6" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" ... ... ... and also now in package.use: x11-libs/qt-sql firebird When I do "emerge -NuD qt-sql" so that the firebird driver for QT is installed, nothing happens, ie portage thinks it's up to date, even though I've added the new use flag - that's what the "N" is for, correct? Doing "emerge --info" also does not show firebird: Portage 2.1.9.50 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.5.2, glibc-2.13-r2, 2.6.39-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.39-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X6_1090T_Processor-with-gentoo-2.0.2 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 05:15:01 +0000 ccache version 3.1.5 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p10 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1, 3.2 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.5 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.38 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=amdfam10 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=amdfam10 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j7" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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="/var/lib/layman/openoffice-geki" SYNC="rsync://rsync1.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr chm cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus declarative dhcpcd dirac dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gpm iconv jpeg kde lcms ldap libnotify lzma mad matroska mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mpi-threads mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg ogg123 opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd private-headers python qt3support qt4 readline samba schroedinger sdl session spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification static-libs subversion svg symlink sysfs tcpd theora tiff truetype udev unicode usb vorbis x264 xcb xinerama xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" 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 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 cgi cgid 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="braindump flow karbon kexi kpresenter krita tables words" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS So what's the story? Does portage "have it in" for Firebird?
This bug is related to firebird use flag on php. Please open a separate bug about firebird on qt-sql. For a reason that I cannot remember right now, unmasking firebird is not possible at the moment so we need separate bugs for each package. Thanks
Hate to disappoint you Markos, but this bug is not about php and firebird, php was just something that happened to display the behaviour. If you read the bug, and refer to the forum post that Jason Wigg refers to, which I happened to create in the first place, you will see that the bug is related to "the system" ignoring the firebird USE variable. Which is what is happening again/still.
Anyone got any ideas?
I will unmask it later today. Please give me sometime to test it
Fixed again
