On Monday 07 January 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm having a time getting ksh93 to install (build error at the end) > > USE='static' emerge -v ksh93 > > The only other use flag coming up was `nls' > > I wasn't real eager for `static' necessarily but without `static' had > already failed and I saw it was a possible flag. Also it might be > handy sometime in a trouble situation where only `/ ' is mounted. > > But that discussion is for some other time. > > Can anyone interpret this emerge failure and have some educated > guesses what I should do to get it to compile. That message follows > the eix output below.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4210019.html?sid=a282fd302189d999924b214267ec5b90 especially last 4 posts Apparently it's a bug, and has been fixed in later versions. You are using a stable 2004 version, in your position I would unmask ksh and emerge the latest unstable -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list