Re: [Ltib] LTIB on Gentoo

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Ken,

Okay that's a bug on my part.  I assumed there would always be 2 files
at least because there's normally two of them: 
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 -> libstdc++.so.5.0.7

I've checked in a change to make it >= 1 which should be okay.

Regards, Stuart

On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 09:34 -0500, Ken Gilmer wrote:
> Hey Stuart,
> 
>    Yeah, my Ltibutils.pm has the Gentoo line.  I've confirmed that "/ 
> usr/portage" exists on my machine:
> 
> $ ls -ld /usr/portage
> drwxr-xr-x 158 root root 4096 Jan 31  2007 /usr/portage
> 
>    And that /usr/include/[gc]++ does not (assuming there is no string  
> substitution in there):
> 
> $ ls -ld /usr/include/*\+\+
> ls: cannot access /usr/include/*++: No such file or directory
> 
>    But if I'm reading the error and Perl right, shouldn't the problem  
> be with the preceeding check, the one for 'libstdc++'?  Here is my  
> libstdc check:
> 
> $ ls -ld /usr/lib/libstdc++*
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 28  2006 /usr/lib/libstdc++-v3
> 
>   I looked up the glob() function, and extracted that particular code  
> into a script and ran it:
> 
> $ cat /tmp/globtest.pm
> print glob('/usr/lib/libstdc++*');
> 
> $ perl /tmp/globtest.pm
> /usr/lib/libstdc++-v3
> 
> So it seems the check requires more than one return here.  If I run  
> the same script on my FC5 box, I get this:
> 
> # perl globtest.pm
> /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.8
> 
> Since I do not know why more than one is required to be valid, I  
> cannot suggest a fix for this problem.  Throwing caution to the wind,  
> I changed the test such that one file expansion would pass.  It now  
> seems to be running, but I'm not sure if it worked or not.  I'll  
> respond back once I know.
> 
>   Here is my box version.  It is a recent install and should be  
> reasonably up to date.
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux localhost 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Mon Feb 13 20:23:47 UTC 2006  
> i686 Celeron-A GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Ken
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 1, 2007, at 5:07 AM, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> 
> > Hi Ken,
> >
> > Can you check that the file: bin/Ltibutils.pm has got this in it at  
> > line
> > 563.  This was recently submitted.
> >
> >     'libstdc++-devel'=> sub { return system_nb("ls -ld /usr/include/ 
> > [gc]++* &>/dev/null") == 0
> >                                          || (-e "/usr/portage") #  
> > Gentoo hack
> >
> >
> > Basically the test is looking for some g/c++ headers in /usr/ 
> > include as
> > evidence of c++ development being installed.  The extra bit that was
> > added was for Gentoo, apparently this does not have these files, so  
> > the
> > idea is that if your system has /usr/portage (e.g. is Gentoo) then the
> > test just passes.
> >
> > If you do have /usr/portage on your system it should work.  If not I
> > need to come up with some other test for Gentoo.  Maybe you could  
> > take a
> > look and see what might be a useful telltale.
> >
> > Regards, Stuart
> >
> > On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 15:37 -0500, Ken Gilmer wrote:
> >> Hello :)
> >>
> >>    I'm trying to get LTIB up and running on a Gentoo box.  I've used
> >> the netinstall perl script from the site.  Initially, LTIB complained
> >> about several packages not installed.  I was able to install all but
> >> one: libstdc++.  Gentoo's package manager has an entry for libstdc++,
> >> yet after emerging that package, LTIB still does not see it:
> >>
> >> $ ./ltib
> >> Don't have HTTP::Request::Common
> >> Don't have LWP::UserAgent
> >> Cannot test proxies, or remote file availability without both
> >> HTTP::Request::Common and LWP::UserAgent
> >>
> >> ltib cannot be run because one or more of the host packages needed
> >> to run it are either missing or out of date.
> >>
> >> Please install/upgrade these packages and then re-try.
> >>
> >> Package                Minimum ver   Installed info
> >> -------                -----------   ---------------
> >> libstdc++              0             not installed
> >> Died at ./ltib line 1412.
> >>
> >> Started: Sat Jan 20 11:25:37 2007
> >> Ended:   Sat Jan 20 11:25:38 2007
> >> Elapsed: 1 seconds
> >>
> >> Build Failed
> >>
> >> Exiting on error or interrupt
> >>
> >> Has anyone run into this before?  Any suggestions on how to resolve
> >> this dependency issue?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ken
> >>
> >>
> >>
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