Try deleting the emerge then running emerge sync
On Sun, October 16, 2005 5:04 am, Kevin O'Gorman said: > I thought I was just looking, but after closing the editor my emerges are > complaining about a corrupted ebuild of xchat. Specifically, > >> calculating world dependencies -/usr/portage/net-irc/xchat/xchat- > 2.4.5.ebuild: line 24: syntax error near unexpected token `>' >> /usr/portage/net-irc/xchat/xchat-2.4.5.ebuild: line 24: ` !xchatnogtk? ( >>=x11-libs/gtk+-2.0.3 )' >> >> !!! ERROR: net-irc/xchat-2.4.5 failed. >> !!! Function , Line 1686, Exitcode 1 >> !!! error sourcing ebuild >> !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status > message. > > Clearly, I did this to myself. But now I don't know how to set it right. I > suspect > all the pieces are here, but a quick look at distfiles didn't even show > that > version > of xchat, so I don't know how to proceed. The syntax of the offending line > looks enough like the ones around it that I can't intuit a quick edit fix. > Maybe somebody could email the correct ebuild, or quick instructions for > forcing a new unpack or whatever seems best? > > While I'm here: the reason I was looking was that I was wondering what the > USE flags xchatdccserver, xchatnogtk and xchattext do, and was hoping the > ebuild itself might tell me. It didn't, or at least not very well. > Especially the > xchattext one. > > ++ kevin > > -- > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
