emerge xfree doesn't work

chriskwan · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2003 9:19 pm Post subject: emerge xfree doesn't work

on an Apple Powerbook G4 800 mhz, emerge xfree doesn't work. it seems to fetch fine, and it compiles for nearly an hour before make errors start to happen. here's where it goes wrong

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make [3]: *** [bdftopcf] Error 1
make [3]: leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.1-r2/work/xc/programs/bdftopcf'
make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
make [2]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.1-rd/work/xc/programs'
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory 'var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.1-r2/work/xc'
make: *** [install] Error 2

!!! ERROR: x11-base/xfree-4.2.1-r2 failed
!!! Function src_install, Line 231, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

what the christ is happening? and also, isn't xfree 4.3 out? why isn't that showing up on the portage tree? (i emerged rsync and sync right before xfree). How do you set ACCEPT_KEYWORD variables?
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David_Escott · l33t Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 952 Location: Boston, MA

export ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~ppc

as to why the compile is failing what are your CFLAGS, portage version, gcc version, etc

PalTara · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 4

I am having exactly the same problem......

!!! ERROR: x11-base/xfree-4.2.1-r2 failed
!!! Function src_install, Line 231, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

only this time on x86.

very confusing

PalTara · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 4

I was able to emerge xfree.

I used emerge -u --emptytree xfree

The --emptytree flag tells portage to rebuild all dependencies for this package - as well as this package.

Anyway it worked for me