[solved] how ebuilds work

SLBMEH · Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 2:11 am Post subject: [solved] how ebuilds work

I'm having an install problem. I started a thread already but I'm not really getting much of a response. I am getting a kernel panic on any emerge that needs to compile. I was wondering what steps portage took when handling an emerge. It seems to be going into a kernel panic from configure.

I wanted to know the steps portage goes through so I can try to pinpoint what program is causing the panic.
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ezod · n00b Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Posts: 33 Location: Windsor

You can get a fairly in-depth treatment on ebuilds between the Gentoo Developer Handbook and the Gentoo Development Guide.

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psomas · Developer Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 212 Location: Greece

maybe emerge --info would help...
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Genone · Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:58 pm Post subject:

Your best bet is probably to use strace to see the syscalls being made when you get the kernel panic.

SLBMEH · Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:38 pm Post subject:

SLBMEH · Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:55 pm Post subject:

Those links helped a lot. Thank you very much. It turned out to be a bad autoconf from my tarball. Updated it and everything works great now.
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