bootstrap fails

wpb44 · n00b Joined: 02 May 2002 Posts: 31

I tried to build gentoo on my Desktop-PC (athlon 1200) WOW!

but texinfo-4.0 is not present on ftp.gnu.org but requested by gcc-2.xx.ebuild (don't know right version numbers).

Will this be fixed so that I can do bootstrap?
simply chnaging TV=4.0 to TV=4.2 doesn't do it!

cu, Bernd

pharynx · n00b Joined: 07 May 2002 Posts: 5 Location: Dallas, TX

I feel your pain!
I was so pumped up on installing gentoo last night when I assembled my brand new Shuttle SV25.

I left it on bootstrap when I went to bed and I just found out that the texinfo-4.0.tar.gz package can't be found.

Further aggravation comes from the fact that you can't even see what's actually in the ftp.gnu.org in /pub/gnu/texinfo directory so I can fix it.

Gentoo admins, I hope you're reading this forum soon, let's fix this one so it won't leave a bad taste for all newcomers to gentoo because you can't get through even bootstrap!

Thanks, and give me your back... (pat, pat

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wpb44 · n00b Joined: 02 May 2002 Posts: 31

Why can't you see whats in the ftp.gnu.org/... directory?

Look at the last few lines of wget's output and you hav the directory. Then run wget ftp.gnu.org/.../ and you'll get the dir-listing. I did so and there is a texinfo-4.2.tar.gz and the older versions as diff-file. But changing the Version in the /usr/portage/sys-devel/gcc/gcc-2.xxx.ebuild-files doesn't do the solution. Then I get other failure messages.

cu, Bernd

boglott · Guest

I am new to gentoo and ran into the same trouble.
The way I (apparently) solved this problem was to search for a outdated mirror of ftp.gnu.org. On ftp://ftp.timisoara.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/texinfo I found one which still has texinfo-4.0.tar.gz.

Download that file to /usr/portage/distfiles.
Then restart bootstrap.sh.

At least my bootstrap is now continueing. I'm wondering if it happens to reach the end...

Wish me good luck!

wpb44 · n00b Joined: 02 May 2002 Posts: 31

That's one workaround, sure.

But in a few hours, this won't work any more, because mirroring goes on and additionally I'd like to have the newer Version. So it would be better if someone could make a new ebuild-file.

But it seems like they have changes the structure of the tar-file.

cu, Bernd

Guest · Guest

Please fix this (newer version would be nice) ... a lot of people get irritated at this point of the installation proces

Especially while trying to bypass this error and trying to bootstrap several times (everything has to be recompiled every time!!)

Grtz

Guest

I got through the bootstrap last night, a started stage 3 but it fails on the shadow-4.0.3 package...apparently they updated ,and the 4.0.2 is no longer there.

Tried to manually install and it says it can't because it might be masked.

So I thought I would start from scratch, and now the bootstrap fails on texinfo :oops:

Any help?

Nels · Guest

Take a look at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=1963

Maybe it will help...
Nels

wpb44 · n00b Joined: 02 May 2002 Posts: 31

Why should this help solving our problem?

The given answers are just how to fix the truetype-error. We do not heve this error (yet). Soult we search for texinfo-4.2.tar.gz in the path /truetype/ ? I don't think so.
It's nice that you want to give a hint, but it doesn't seem to be very valuable.

cu, Bernd

nels · n00b Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1

In fact, my hint was 'generic'. I just said (in the other thread) that some files from ibiblio.org were missing but were available on some mirrors. So I thought it would also be the case for texinfo.

I'm sorry if it doesn't help you. At least, I've tried...

Nels