Bug 53627 – grep-2.5.1-r2 + libpcre-4.4 broken

• Status: VERIFIED TEST-REQUEST
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Master One 2004-06-11 04:34:13 UTC]

I performed an emerge -uD world today, which updated grep from 2.5.1-r1 to 2.5.1-r2 and installed libpcre-4.4 as a dependency (the perl useflag is new in grep-2.5.1-r2, it's not in the 2.5.1-r1 ebuild).

This led to a failure in calculating module dependencies on boot.

I just downgraded to grep-2.5.1-r1, unmerged libpcre, and everything seems to be fine again.

[Comment 1 Master One 2004-06-11 06:04:07 UTC]

Ok, I just reemerged latest grep-2.5.1-r2 with USE="-perl" and everything is still working fine, no error messages on boot, so it has to be a problem related to libpcre-4.4.

[Comment 2 Tim Tailor 2004-06-11 13:24:25 UTC]

Just hit the same problem and then also downgraded grep. After that it worked again. I think it is a dependency problem.. localmount -> runscript.sh -> grep and grep is dynamically linked to /usr/lib/libpcre.so.0  So in case your /usr is on a partition of its own, you are in trouble..  

[Comment 3 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2004-06-11 16:31:09 UTC]

yep.  comment #2 is right on.  I've modified the ebuild to link it statically
if you have USE="perl" which should fix this.

[Comment 4 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2004-06-11 16:31:35 UTC]

Resync and try it again please.

[Comment 5 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2004-06-11 23:48:42 UTC]

Actually, -r4 is better.

[Comment 6 Master One 2004-06-12 01:19:22 UTC]

I indeed have /usr on a separate partition, and 2.5.1-r4 fixed it, I just emerged it, unmerged libpcre and did a reboot, now everything is fine again.