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Bug 448086 - PYTHONPATH from system confuses gentoo-prefix
Summary: PYTHONPATH from system confuses gentoo-prefix
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo/Alt
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Prefix Support (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Prefix
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Reported: 2012-12-21 13:57 UTC by Christopher Schwan
Modified: 2013-03-22 00:14 UTC (History)
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Description Christopher Schwan 2012-12-21 13:57:37 UTC
Bootstrapping Prefix fails on my AMD64 linux box because of gcc-config:


Type here what you want to wish me [luck] 

* Bootstrapping Gentoo prefixed portage installation using
* host:   x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
* prefix: /home/cschwan/gentoo
* ready to bootstrap stage3
/home/cschwan/gentoo/usr/bin/gcc-config: line 79: /home/cschwan/gentoo/etc/env.d/gcc/config-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu: No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'rootuid'
 * gcc-config: Must be root

The next ebuild is net-tools which fails because gcc cannot find "linux/if_strip.h" - thats because is uses the non-prefixed gcc.
Comment 1 Christopher Schwan 2012-12-22 10:30:10 UTC
The installed gcc-config is 1.5-r2, emerge --info is:


Portage 2.2.01.20837-prefix (prefix/linux/amd64, gcc-4.5.4, unavailable, 3.6.11-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.6.11-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_Q_740_@_1.73GHz-with-gentoo-2.1
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:54:54 +0000
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p10::gentoo_prefix
sys-devel/binutils:       2.22-r1::gentoo_prefix
sys-devel/gcc:            4.2.4-r01.4::gentoo_prefix
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.5-r2::gentoo_prefix
sys-devel/make:           3.82::gentoo_prefix
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.5::gentoo_prefix (virtual/os-headers)
Repositories: gentoo_prefix
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64-linux"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-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/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CPPFLAGS="-I/home/cschwan/gentoo/usr/include -I/home/cschwan/gentoo/tmp/usr/include"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/home/cschwan/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles force-prefix parallel-fetch parse-eapi-ebuild-head preserve-libs protect-owned sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LDFLAGS="-L/home/cschwan/gentoo/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath=/home/cschwan/gentoo/usr/lib -L/home/cschwan/gentoo/lib -Wl,-rpath=/home/cschwan/gentoo/lib -L/home/cschwan/gentoo/tmp/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath=/home/cschwan/gentoo/tmp/usr/lib"
PKGDIR="/home/cschwan/gentoo/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/home/cschwan/gentoo/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/cschwan/gentoo/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/home/cschwan/gentoo/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.prefix.freens.org/gentoo-portage-prefix"
USE="amd64 bootstrap bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cxx dri iconv ipv6 mmx modules mudflap ncurses nptl openmp pppd prefix session sse sse2 tcpd unicode 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="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" 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="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_2 python2_7" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga neomagic nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware dummy v4l" 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:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
Comment 2 Christopher Schwan 2012-12-22 14:02:40 UTC
I temporarily solved the problem

- by removing line no. 246 in ${EPREFIX}/usr/bin/gcc-config:

[[ $(id -u) != $(python -c 'import portage.const as c; print c.rootuid;') ]] && die_eerror "Must be root"

- setting the compiler by hand using:

${EPREFIX}/usr/bin/gcc-config ${EPREFIX}/etc/env.d/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.2.4

- and resuming the bootstraping.

I am not sure though, how a proper fix for the line above would look like.
Comment 3 Benda Xu gentoo-dev 2013-01-21 09:27:13 UTC
This seems to be troubled by your uid.

Have you ever invoked the bootstrap.sh by root and then normal user, or vice versa?

check 

   $EPREFIX/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/const_autotool.py
   $EPREFIX/etc/make.globals

to see if your uid/gid is set properly.
Comment 4 Christopher Schwan 2013-01-21 10:50:47 UTC
- const_autotool.py:

    portagegroup = "users"
    portageuser  = "cschwan"
    rootuser     = "cschwan"
    rootuid      = 1000
    rootgid      = 100

- make.globals:

    PORTAGE_USER='cschwan'
    PORTAGE_GROUP='users'
    PORTAGE_ROOT_USER='cschwan'

    PORTAGE_INST_UID="1000"
    PORTAGE_INST_GID="100"

- id -u:

    1000

Seems to match, does it not?
Comment 5 Christopher Schwan 2013-01-21 11:07:04 UTC
I think I found the problem: when I execute the following command:

$EPREFIX/usr/bin/python -v -c 'import portage.const as c; print c.rootuid;' 2>&1 | grep const

it outputs me:

# $EPREFIX/usr/lib/python2.7/sre_constants.pyc matches $EPREFIX/usr/lib/python2.7/sre_constants.py
import sre_constants # precompiled from $EPREFIX/usr/lib/python2.7/sre_constants.pyc
# /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/const.pyc matches /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/const.py
import portage.const # precompiled from /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/const.pyc
# cleanup[1] sre_constants
# cleanup[2] portage.const

So my prefixed python imports the python packages from my system instead of my prefix!?
Comment 6 Benda Xu gentoo-dev 2013-01-21 15:05:09 UTC
Ah-ha, that's the problem.

Try this:

$EPREFIX/usr/bin/python -c "import sys; print sys.path"

to see what python path is used.

I have met with this problem before (resulting in gcc-config fail) but forgot how did I fixed it :(
Comment 7 Christopher Schwan 2013-01-21 16:42:45 UTC
Yep, the paths (the second one) are definitely wrong:

['',
'/usr/lib/portage/pym',
'/home/cschwan/gentoo/usr/lib/python27.zip', '/home/cschwan/gentoo/usr/lib/python2.7', '/home/cschwan/gentoo/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2', '/home/cschwan/gentoo/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/home/cschwan/gentoo/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/home/cschwan/gentoo/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/home/cschwan/gentoo/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages', '/home/cschwan/gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym']
Comment 8 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev 2013-01-21 20:52:59 UTC
I'm wondering where that /usr/lib/portage/pym  comes from.  Is it a bootstrapped python? or ebuild compiled one?
Comment 9 Christopher Schwan 2013-01-22 09:07:30 UTC
How do I find out? If I continue the bootstrap script, it updates portage, and begins to emerge net-tools and finally fails with the following error:


Hmmmm, I was already afraid of this to happen.  Running
  /home/cschwan/gentoo/bin/bash ./bootstrap-prefix.sh "/home/cschwan/gentoo" stage3
somewhere failed :(  Details might be found in the build log:
  /home/cschwan/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908/temp/build.log
Comment 10 Christopher Schwan 2013-01-22 09:20:35 UTC
I am currently trying the manual bootstrapping procedure. After stage1 the paths are already wrong (from $EPREFIX/tmp/usr/bin/python):

['',
'/usr/lib/portage/pym',
'/home/cschwan/gentoo_new/tmp/usr/lib/python27.zip', '/home/cschwan/gentoo_new/tmp/usr/lib/python2.7', '/home/cschwan/gentoo_new/tmp/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2', '/home/cschwan/gentoo_new/tmp/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/home/cschwan/gentoo_new/tmp/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/home/cschwan/gentoo_new/tmp/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/home/cschwan/gentoo_new/tmp/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages']
Comment 11 Christopher Schwan 2013-01-22 09:26:43 UTC
... and this in turn is because =sys-apps/portage-2.1.11.31 installs a file "/etc/env.d/05portage" which contains:

    PYTHONPATH="/usr/lib/portage/pym"

Should the bootstrap script clean this variable from the environment?
Comment 12 Christopher Schwan 2013-01-24 13:19:19 UTC
"unset PYTHONPATH" solved the problem for me. Also, this is only needed for bootstrapping; the start script cleans env properly.
Comment 13 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev 2013-01-24 17:41:01 UTC
aha, so PYTHONPATH is set in the env?  I guess then we can simply blacklist/filter it!
Comment 14 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev 2013-01-24 17:45:43 UTC
Thanks people, I committed the block.
Comment 15 Christopher Schwan 2013-01-24 17:46:27 UTC
Thanks a lot!
Comment 16 Michael Haubenwallner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-01-24 18:35:33 UTC
(In reply to comment #11)
> ... and this in turn is because =sys-apps/portage-2.1.11.31 installs a file
> "/etc/env.d/05portage" which contains:
> 
>     PYTHONPATH="/usr/lib/portage/pym"

This did bite me too, and I'm wondering if that's on purpose.

Actually, I do think this is a bug in Gentoo Linux (non-Prefix), as PYTHONPATH is in the same league as LD_LIBRARY_PATH. We've killed this league of variables in Prefix for good reason: They (have the power to) break everything - not just Prefix.
Comment 17 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2013-01-24 18:54:24 UTC
(In reply to comment #16)
> (In reply to comment #11)
> > ... and this in turn is because =sys-apps/portage-2.1.11.31 installs a file
> > "/etc/env.d/05portage" which contains:
> > 
> >     PYTHONPATH="/usr/lib/portage/pym"
> 
> This did bite me too, and I'm wondering if that's on purpose.

Yes, because it allows third-party apps to import the portage module, even though it's not installed into site-packages for the current python version.

> Actually, I do think this is a bug in Gentoo Linux (non-Prefix), as
> PYTHONPATH is in the same league as LD_LIBRARY_PATH. We've killed this
> league of variables in Prefix for good reason: They (have the power to)
> break everything - not just Prefix.

I don't know of any good alternatives for the way that we use PYTHONPATH. I would suggest for prefix portage to add its own PYTHONPATH entry in $EPREFIX/etc/env.d, so that you get that in your environment when you source $EPREFIX/etc/profile.
Comment 18 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev 2013-01-24 19:02:43 UTC
Gentoo's Python is patched for ages to include portage's pym path.  So the PYTHONPATH env just makes that Portage's pym stuff comes first:

% cat /etc/gentoo-release 
Gentoo Base System release 2.1
% env PYTHONPATH= python -c "import sys; print(sys.path)"
['', '/home/ruurd', '/usr/lib64/python32.zip', '/usr/lib64/python3.2', '/usr/lib64/python3.2/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib64/python3.2/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib64/python3.2/site-packages', '/usr/lib64/portage/pym']
% python -c "import sys; print(sys.path)"
['', '/usr/lib/portage/pym', '/usr/lib64/python32.zip', '/usr/lib64/python3.2', '/usr/lib64/python3.2/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib64/python3.2/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib64/python3.2/site-packages', '/usr/lib64/portage/pym']

% cat $EPREFIX/etc/gentoo-release 
Gentoo Prefix Base System release 2.2
% env PYTHONPATH= python -c "import sys; print(sys.path)"
['', '/net/ra/export/gentoo/prefix-tree/scripts', '/Library/Gentoo/usr/lib/python33.zip', '/Library/Gentoo/usr/lib/python3.3', '/Library/Gentoo/usr/lib/python3.3/plat-darwin', '/Library/Gentoo/usr/lib/python3.3/lib-dynload', '/Library/Gentoo/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages', '/Library/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym']
% python -c "import sys; print(sys.path)"
['', '/Library/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym', '/Library/Gentoo/usr/lib/python33.zip', '/Library/Gentoo/usr/lib/python3.3', '/Library/Gentoo/usr/lib/python3.3/plat-darwin', '/Library/Gentoo/usr/lib/python3.3/lib-dynload', '/Library/Gentoo/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages']
Comment 19 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2013-01-24 19:29:04 UTC
(In reply to comment #18)
> Gentoo's Python is patched for ages to include portage's pym path.

Yeah, /usr/lib* path are tricky due to multilib. Portage used to install in /usr/$(get_libdir), but has since moved to /usr/lib. Meanwhile, Gentoo's python may still be patched to add /usr/$(get_libdir)/portage/pym to the path. People on x32 systems had reported this problem. So, PYTHONPATH gives us more reliable results.
Comment 20 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2013-03-22 00:14:08 UTC
(In reply to comment #19)
> So, PYTHONPATH gives us more reliable results.

Moving forward, my plan is to install symlinks into site-packages for python versions selected via the PYTHON_TARGETS USE_EXPAND variable. I've added support for this to the portage-9999 ebuild:

http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/portage/portage-9999.ebuild?view=log#rev1.69