emerge howl failure [SOLVED]

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castrik · Post by **castrik** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:35 am

i am trying to

emerge gnome xscreensaver

for which howl is a dependency.

My USE flags are:

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USE="-kde -qt gnome alsa gtk hal howl openssh cdr"

My compile fails at howl with many errors like these:

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/usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:340: error: `__u32' declared as function returning a function
/usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:342: error: syntax error before '*' token
/usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:342: error: `__u32' declared as function returning a function
/usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:344: error: syntax error before '*' token
/usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:344: error: `__u32' declared as function returning a function
/usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:346: error: syntax error before '*' token
/usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:346: error: `__u32' declared as function returning a function
/usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:349: error: syntax error before "__u64"

I successfully emerged ethtool in an effort to fix this, but to no avail.
My kernel is 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 compiled with genkernel.

Any ideas?

AliasXZ · Post by **AliasXZ** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:04 pm

does it say anything about /sys/kernel ? i had that error from howl

castrik · Post by **castrik** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:06 pm

no errors about /sys/kernel just a page long flood of ethtool syntax errors.

AliasXZ · Post by **AliasXZ** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:08 pm

did u use genkernel?

castrik · Post by **castrik** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:10 pm

yes , sorry i'll add that to the original post.

AliasXZ · Post by **AliasXZ** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:14 pm

ok this is what i did:

compiled my kernel by not using genkernel, causes a prob for some reason... then:

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unmerge linux-headers (if this says it cant find it, your using 26 headers already so skip next)
emerge linux26-headers

then

emerge glibc

then i didnt get the error anymore, you might wana try diff mirrors aswel and emerge-sync, but i doubt thatll make a difference

castrik · Post by **castrik** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:24 pm

i am using 2.6 headers and now running a non-genkernel kernel, glibc has also been recompiled, however the problem, with the same errors still occurs. can anyone help me?

JORUNO · Post by **JORUNO** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:59 am

I have problem to emerge howl too. I'm using Gentoo 2005.0.
Can any one tell me how to fix this problem?

Frank Lorenz · Post by **Frank Lorenz** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:26 pm

I encountered the same error with howl during a "emerge gnome", I think

Perhaps the following info helps someone to identify the problem: ???

The errors are encountered inside /usr/include/linux/ethtool.h. Compiler reports tons of "parse error before "__u64" " or other data type declarations like "__u32".
The ethtool.h is included by posix_interface.c of howl. The last error message complains that the storage size of 'edata' is not known, where 'edata' is a 'ethtool_value' struct containing two "__u32" data words. For me, it looks like these data type declarations are unknown inside ethtool.h (which does not include anything), so perhaps there is an include missing in posix_interface.c???

best regards,
Frank

todw1fd · Post by **todw1fd** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:21 pm

Do a search on bugs.gentoo.org for 84030. I unmerged headers and remerged headers and glibc which did nothing for howl. added net-misc/howl ~x86 to package.keywords and emerged howl again and it compiled successfully. I believe the ebuild version is 0.9.8. Try it and see if it helps.

Frank Lorenz · Post by **Frank Lorenz** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:48 am

What do you mean with

"added net-misc/howl ~x86 to package.keywords"

?

I cannot find a "package.keywords" file on my system.
After reading some man pages, I found that you can add the ~x86 flag as a keyword to the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS option inside /etc/make.conf:

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 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86".

When doing this, emerge fetches the 0.9.8 version of howl which includes the patch we need and compiles successfully. After compiling howl, I removed the above line again. Problem is that when removing this line and running e.g. emerge gnome again (with dependency "howl"), portage tries to compile the buggy version of howl (0.9.6) again and fails.

So your "package.keywords" solution seems to be better, I simply do not understand it

best regards,
Frank

Frank Lorenz · Post by **Frank Lorenz** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:07 am

Ups, I just found the solution (haven't read enough man pages, I think

)

For all readers: You can create a package.keywords file inside /etc/portage and add the line

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net-misc/howl ~x86

to it.

Then the command

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emerge howl

fetches the 0.9.8 version of howl which is masked up to now (the ~x86 command says portage should use masked versions for x86 platform, too). This version includes a patch to compile sucessfully.

etrek · Post by **etrek** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 3:22 am

It worked for me on my opteron (using the ~amd64 instead of ~x86)

That's cool, thanks much!

E.

SchmilK · Post by **SchmilK** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 3:24 pm

As Homer Simpson once said

"yes YES OOOOOOOH YEEEEESSSSSS!!!"

FINALLY!!! I get to emerge kftpgrabber!! All imissed was "failed" from the search term emerge howl and now howl 0.9.8 is installed, and kftpgrabber just installed...FINALLY!

Thanks SOOOOO much for the best support forum EVAAARRRRR!!!!!

megaburn · Post by **megaburn** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:37 pm

I just moved two laptops over from Mandrake with the 'stock' 2005.0 iso's using emerge gnome xscreensaver and ran into this problem on both of them. Noting this problem and Frank's solution in the regular documentation would be very helpful for (most) new users.....

Thanks! This problem was driving me nuts.

-Chris

Jameas · Post by **Jameas** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 4:37 pm

This (package.keywords) works for me, too. Thank you.

StevemE;eet · Post by **StevemE;eet** » Wed May 04, 2005 4:07 am

Hey,

I'm trying to compile gnome but i got the error

then i did what u said and downloaded 0.9.8
it still doesnt work

AliasXZ · Post by **AliasXZ** » Wed May 04, 2005 8:45 am

whats the error? same one?

Stagediver · Post by **Stagediver** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:07 pm

THANK YOU FRANK LORENZ !

I can only agree to SchmilK and megaburn: Thanks for this hint !! And yes, it should be put in the docs !

This works for me with a stage 3 athlon-xp installation of gentoo 2005.0 (having nothing installed but the pure kernel and system and then i wanted to install gnome-light and then this problem occured)

Thanks again !

Kensai · Post by **Kensai** » Sat May 07, 2005 3:01 am

Thanks it worked Fine I wondered why this happened. Never though a package marked stable will give such an error.

ironmind · Post by **ironmind** » Sun May 08, 2005 10:51 am

You might not want to add ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" to your make.conf coz then you'll accept to emerge potentially unstable versions of any software in the future. Instead I suggest you emerge just howl with the ~x86 flag.

Try this:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge howl

You can always see if there is a newer version of some software by comparing:
emerge "some_software" -vp and ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge "some_software" -vp

Azalit · Post by **Azalit** » Sun May 08, 2005 3:45 pm

make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving Directory /var/tmp/portage/howl-0.9.6-r2/work/howl-0.9.6/src/lib/howl'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving Directory /var/tmp/portage/howl-0.9.6-r2/work/howl-0.9.6/src/lib'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving Directory /var/tmp/portage/howl-0.9.6-r2/work/howl-0.9.6/src'

help please

p.n · Post by **p.n** » Sun May 08, 2005 3:53 pm

ironmind wrote: You might not want to add ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" to your make.conf coz then you'll accept to emerge potentially unstable versions of any software in the future. Instead I suggest you emerge just howl with the ~x86 flag.

Try this:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge howl

You can always see if there is a newer version of some software by comparing:
emerge "some_software" -vp and ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge "some_software" -vp

I would suggest you not use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS at all. Rather add howl ~x86 to /etc/portage/package.keywords. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS has been depricated.

Regards
p.n

Azalit · Post by **Azalit** » Sun May 08, 2005 7:54 pm

All right. I've no idea what to do. last night I tried to install gnome

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emerge gnome xscreensaver

and I let it run for... maybe 4 1/2 hours before I went to bed so the computer was running all night and I'm not sure how much longer it took to give me the aforementioned error. I need help. If any 1 knows what to do or if there's a post about this that I missed somewhere, please help.

checco · Post by **checco** » Thu May 12, 2005 3:55 pm

Hi All,
I've applied all the suggestion, but the result is the same

....
when I

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emerge howl

this is the result:

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/usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:340: error: `__u32' declared as function returning a function
/usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:342: error: parse error before '*' token
/usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:342: error: `__u32' declared as function returning a function
/usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:344: error: parse error before '*' token
/usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:344: error: `__u32' declared as function returning a function
/usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:346: error: parse error before '*' token
/usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:346: error: `__u32' declared as function returning a function
/usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:349: error: parse error before "__u64"
/usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:350: error: parse error before "__u32"
/usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:353: error: parse error before "__u64"
/usr/include/linux/ethtool.h:356: error: parse error before '}' token
Posix/posix_interface.c: In function `sw_network_interface_link_status':
Posix/posix_interface.c:238: error: storage size of `edata' isn't known
make[4]: *** [posix_interface.lo] Error 1
make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../include -I../../../include/ -I../ -DHOWL_KERNEL -c Posix/posix_signal.c -MT posix_signal.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/posix_signal.TPlo -o posix_signal.o >/dev/null 2>&1
mv -f .libs/posix_signal.lo posix_signal.lo
make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/howl-0.9.8/work/howl-0.9.8/src/lib/howl'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/howl-0.9.8/work/howl-0.9.8/src/lib/howl'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/howl-0.9.8/work/howl-0.9.8/src/lib'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/howl-0.9.8/work/howl-0.9.8/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

!!! ERROR: net-misc/howl-0.9.8 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 33, Exitcode 2
!!! emake failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

As suggested I've added ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in /etc/make.conf
and
I've created the file /etc/portage/package.keywords

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net-misc/howl ~x86

Any other suggestion ?

P.S. Take care that I'm a beginner...

Bye,
Checco