Re: Botched vcr compile

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 07:22:16 -0500
"Jim Bradley" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have just installed gentoo (1.4rc1), and am generally impressed. I
> have had one problem that I haven't been able to work out, though. I
> get an error message, "!!! Function src_compile, Line -153, Exitcode
> 2; !!! emake died" when trying to emerge vcr. Any clues as to what I
> need to do to get this to compile?

Gentoo's emake facility uses parallel building (-j2 switch for gcc). Can
cause problems I'm told, so you could try removing that switch from
MAKEOPTS in /etc/make.defaults, or try replacing emake with make in the
ebuild file.

Might be interesting to see if you can compile it using the traditional
procedure (outside of the Portage system). Maybe the code just doesn't
work with gcc-3.x, see:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5921

--kerframil