The problem comes in stage3 when you have packages that inherit autotools.eclass. That eclass makes use of gettext (if it exists) and run autopoint which will fail if it doesn't find /usr/share/gettext/archive.dir.tar.gz. The fix is to remove /usr/share/gettext from the list of stage1 cleanables. I'll inline the patch: diff -Naur catalyst-2.0.11.orig/modules/stage1_target.py catalyst-2.0.11/modules/stage1_target.py --- catalyst-2.0.11.orig/modules/stage1_target.py 2012-09-08 17:38:02.000000000 -0400 +++ catalyst-2.0.11/modules/stage1_target.py 2012-10-25 12:20:39.000000000 -0400 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ def set_cleanables(self): generic_stage_target.set_cleanables(self) - self.settings["cleanables"].extend(["/usr/share/gettext",\ + self.settings["cleanables"].extend([\ "/usr/lib/python2.2/test", "/usr/lib/python2.2/email",\ "/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-tk", "/usr/lib/python2.3/test",\ "/usr/lib/python2.3/email", "/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk",\
I'm curious how I've never hit this, can you please provide a sample error if possible?
This is happening on a uclibc system where the dependencies are different. Nonetheless it can happen on any system because autotools.eclass thinks gettext is installed and assumes autopoint is working. But autopoint is broken because catalyst stage1 removed /usr/share/gettext/* I lost the autopoint.out (of course I can regenerate it), but here's the error from portage: >>> '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/util-linux-2.21.2/temp/build.log' * Package: sys-apps/util-linux-2.21.2 * Repository: gentoo * USE: amd64 cramfs crypt elibc_uclibc kernel_linux ncurses uclibc unicode userland_GNU * FEATURES: sandbox * Applying util-linux-2.21.1-no-printf-alloc.patch ... [ ok ] * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/util-linux-2.21.2/work/util-linux-2.21.2' ... * Running autopoint --force ... [ !! ] * Failed Running autopoint ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/util-linux-2.21.2/temp/autopoint.out * ERROR: sys-apps/util-linux-2.21.2 failed (prepare phase): * Failed Running autopoint ! * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 85: Called src_prepare * environment, line 3191: Called eautoreconf * environment, line 945: Called autotools_run_tool '--at-missing' 'autopoint' '--force' * environment, line 726: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die "Failed Running $1 !"; * * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=sys-apps/util-linux-2.21.2'`, * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=sys-apps/util-linux-2.21.2'`. /usr/lib/portage/bin/isolated-functions.sh: line 214: wait: `Failed Running autopoint !': not a pid or valid job spec * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/util-linux-2.21.2/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/util-linux-2.21.2/temp/environment'. * Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/util-linux-2.21.2/work/util-linux-2.21.2' * S: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/util-linux-2.21.2/work/util-linux-2.21.2'
Here's autopoint.out cat /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/util-linux-2.21.2/temp/autopoint.out ***** autopoint ***** ***** PWD: /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/util-linux-2.21.2/work/util-linux-2.21.2 ***** autopoint --force /usr/bin/autopoint: line 393: /usr/share/gettext/archive.dir.tar.gz: No such file or directory tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: gettext-0.14.1: Not found in archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors autopoint: *** infrastructure files for version 0.14.1 not found; this is autopoint from GNU gettext-tools 0.18.1 autopoint: *** Stop.
committed to the catalyst repo: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/catalyst.git;a=commit;h=ef5b53925f4cfa578c4f659840213a46e6d43ef1
