emerge xfree fails halfway through..and i don't know why

[foshdawg]

i've been compiling xfree for 3 days now and each time i get to the same spot before the emerge fails. the error i get is this:

[pjp]

Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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Quis separabit? Quo animo?

[foshdawg]

btw, i was emerging xfree-4.3.0-r2 and now i'm trying the r3 build (wish it didn't take so long, i get about two builds a day).

[foshdawg]

failed again at another point this time:

[aja]

Erratic, non-repeatable emerge crashes are usually hardware problems:

(0) Check your bios settings - things like memory timing issues can make a box unstable.
(1) Check your memory - memtest-86 is a great app for this.
(2) Do not overclock, or even under-clock to see if the system stabilizes
(3) Make sure your box is not overheating.

[foshdawg]

the error with the r2 build i can reproduce every time. but this is the first time i've trie dthe r3 build so getting an error was of no surprise. i know my memory is fine, i don't overclock (it's a notebook and an old one at that), and i know my box overheats because well.....all laptops do heh.

[lodger]

I got the same error twice on -r3. I filed a bug report - 22372- yesterday.
lodger

[seemant]

mv -f ${PATCH_DIR}/0120* ${PATCH_DIR}/excluded

Look for the above line in the ebuild. It's in an else .. fi block. Can you move that line outside that block and try to emerge please?

[lodger]

Seemant,
That seemed to work but now I get this --


make[5]: Entering directory `/home/tmp/portage/portage/xfree-4.3.0-r3/work/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/input'
rm -f libidriver.a
ar clq libidriver.a `cat idriver.list`
ar: mouse/*_drv.o: No such file or directory
make[5]: *** [libidriver.a] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/tmp/portage/portage/xfree-4.3.0-r3/work/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/input'
make[4]: *** [all] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/tmp/portage/portage/xfree-4.3.0-r3/work/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86'
make[3]: *** [all.subdirs] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/tmp/portage/portage/xfree-4.3.0-r3/work/xc/programs/Xserver'
make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tmp/portage/portage/xfree-4.3.0-r3/work/xc/programs'
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tmp/portage/portage/xfree-4.3.0-r3/work/xc'
make: *** [install] Error 2

!!! ERROR: x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3 failed.
!!! Function src_install, Line 531, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

This is my fifth emerge attempt at xfree-4.3.0-r3 and it is getting
very,very old.
lodger

[lodger]

That should be programs -cut and paste problem.
But anyway mouse/*_drv.o is there but emerge didn't find it.
I guess I'll run this for the sixth time .
lodger
porc2 xfree # cat /home/tmp/portage/portage/xfree-4.3.0-r3/work/xc/prograts/Xserver/hw/xfree86/input/idriver.lis
mouse/*_drv.o ^
keyboard/*_drv.o
calcomp/*_drv.o
citron/*_drv.o
digitaledge/*_drv.o
dmc/*_drv.o
dynapro/*_drv.o
elographics/*_drv.o
tek4957/*_drv.o
microtouch/*_drv.o
mutouch/*_drv.o
penmount/*_drv.o
spaceorb/*_drv.o
summa/*_drv.o
wacom/*_drv.o
void/*_drv.o
magellan/*_drv.o
hyperpen/*_drv.o
jamstudio/*_drv.o
fpit/*_drv.o
palmax/*_drv.o

[seemant]

Lodger, do me this favour:

grep PATCH_VER /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3.ebuild

The error you got was from a previous patchset, where the "debug" flag caused that. (please do emerge info | grep debug <-- that will show you if you have "debug" in USE).

[lodger]

Ok. I used the -debug USE flag and all compile fine at last.
Thanks Seemant
lodger

[seemant]

lodger