Re: Re: xenning gentoo

["Eric S. Johansson" <esj@harvee.org>]

Barry G wrote:
> Eric,
> 
> I had the exact same problem when I tried the ebuild.  Turns
> out I had downloaded it with wget (I.E. 
> wget http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=50718).  Although
> the ebuild looked perfect, it wined about mount-boot and
> had the weird error were words were ran together 
> (inherit()sr/portage/eclass/mount-boot).
> 
> To fix it, I went to the site of the above ebuild and copied and
> pasted it into a vim session (using :a in vim).

!Do'H!  wget returns dos format text.  there are multiple ways of 
converting to the one true format (unix).  I'm now building and ever 
hopeful.  this "feature" always bites me when I least expect it.

> It then worked as an ebuild should.  
> Unfortunately, It then gave me the errors that I logged on bugzilla.

maybe a problem with cut and paste.  try wget and convert to unix text 
(emacs, nano, tr, ???)

> I don't know what the root cause of the wget'ed ebuild problem was.  
> Invisible characters?

na, it was 2 (dos) characters... ;-)

more updates later

--- eric

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