More on Failure to reinstall Gnome2

[Scott Ballantyne]

> On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 22:14 +0000, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
> > > Could you post full build logs from gs8 and gs9 someplace (pastebin.com,
> > > dpaste.com, etc), along with contents of your /etc/make.conf, uname -a?
> > > 
> > Hi Michal,
> > 
> > They are at
> > 
> > http://www.ssr.com/sdb/GHOSTSCRIPT
> > 
> > Thanks again so much for your assistance.
> > 
> > Scott
> 
> 
> So, as far as I can tell, all looks ok, up until the (first and only) -
> 
> ./obj/../soobj/genconf ./obj/../soobj/devs.tr -h /dev/stdout -p "%s&s&&" -pl "&-l%s&s&&" -pL "&-L%s&s&&" -ol ./obj/../soobj/ld.tr | awk 'BEGIN{j=0; p=1;} /jpeg_device/ {if(j++ > 0) p=0;} // {if(p==1) { print; } else { p=1 } }' > ./obj/../soobj/gconfxx.h
> Can't open /dev/stdout for output.
> 
> 
> What does `ls -l /dev/stdout` say about it?
> 
> Also, Is there anything more exotic on your build environment that might
> be of some interest (e.g. running in jail, etc.)?
> 

Nothing particularly unusual, I'm not running in a jail and I haven't
done anything 'custom' to the kernel.

Yes, I noticed that. /dev/stdout doesn't work here, and the entries
are peculiar. 

--------
$ ls -l /dev/stdout
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  4 Aug 29 23:50 /dev/stdout -> fd/1
$ ls -l /dev/fd
dr-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  0 Sep 15 10:50 /dev/fd
$ ls -l /dev/fd/1
total 0
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Sep 15 10:50 cmdline
--w-------  1 root  wheel  0 Sep 15 10:50 ctl
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Sep 15 10:50 etype
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Sep 15 10:50 rlimit
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Sep 15 10:50 status
--------

All the directories under FD are of this format, however, so I assumed
it was a change to the OS that I simply don't understand.

It's also interesting to cd soobj and run genconf:

# ./genconf devs.tr -h FOO -p "%s&s&&" -pl "&-l%s&s&&" -pL "&-L%s&s&&" -ol ld.tr
Can't read ./obj/../soobj/unix_.dev.

FOO isn't created

Thanks again, Michal