emerging gnome error

[xblinkx]

when i try and emerge gnome it goes fine for awhile then I get
Error app text/aspell-0.50.3 failed
and it stops. Whats wrong?

[diastelo]

Can you provide any more information? Such as what the exact error message was? (Just look for the last part right above where it says ERROR.) A bug was discovered and reported to bugzilla that might match your problem. If you get something that looks like:

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make[1]: *** [aspell] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving director '/var/tmp/portage/aspell-050.3/work/aspell-0.50.3/prog'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

!!! Error: app-text/aspell-0.50.3 failed
!!! Function src_compile, Line 35, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)



And above all that it have the undefinted reference errors like you posted.

[xblinkx]

How do I

edit the build, and change the pkg_setup function to match:

pkg_setup() {
if [ ${ARCH} = "ppc" ] ; then
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fsigned-char"
CFLAGS=${CXXFLAGS}
fi
LDFLAGS="-lgpm"
}

I am not sure how.

[diastelo]

As root, open the file /usr/portage/app-text/aspell/aspell-0.50.3.ebuild in a text editor, such as vi, xemacs, gedit, etc. You'll find the section to be changed about halfway down the file. Just modify that section to match what what you copied and pasted from the Bugzilla posting. In this case, you are just adding the line "LDFLAGS="-lgpm" right before the closing bracket.
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[daki]

you could also downgrade your ncurses. That seemed to work for me. But when building aspell, you'll have to make sure you use --nodep for the build, or else it will grab the version of ncurses that didn't work. Here's is the bug link this information came from.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46399

Hope that helps.

[xblinkx]

it worked, thank you for the help