Shawn Haggett writes:
> Some recent updates have broken my mythtv (missing libraries) so I'm of
> course trying to recompile it. Whenever I try however, the following
> happens:
>
> sgc ~ # emerge -va mythtv
[...]
> /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p18314-r1/temp/environment: line
> 3924: cd:
> /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p18314-r1/work/branches/release-0-2
>1-fixes/mythtv: No such file or directory
> sed: can't
> read
> /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p18314-r1/work/branches/release-0-2
>1-fixes/mythtv/version.pro: No such file or directory
[...]
> It seems the work folder has a 'mythtv-0.21_p18314' folder, which has the
> branches folder inside that.
>
> This has been broken for over a week now (normally I just wait, resync
> and these things go away if they're an ebuild problem) but I'm starting
> to think it's a problem on my end. Anyone have any suggestions on how to
> track down where the error is coming from. It the environment file, but
> I'm not sure if that's a distributed file, or generated by portage (I
> suspect the later). So where does that file get its contents from?
I just had the same problem with a fresh install of mythtv. I tried other
versions, 0.21_p19961-r2 showed the same problem, but 0.21_p20877 did
compile. So give that one a try.
No idea where the exact problem lies, I did not even use mythtv yet. Other
things to do first.
Wonko
