[plug] Gentoo Emerge question (Problem of late)

[Walter HILL]

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 12:01 +0800, Shannon Carver wrote:
> Hi guys, 
> 
>  
> 
> Any full time gentoo users here?  I’m usually pretty nazi with my
> updates to my home system (Just a desktop, so no worries about using
> unstable software), yet lately my emerges have been bombing out on
> basically every package compilation.  Before I go to trawl the Gentoo
> forums, I thought I’d ask here, as it seems to be a problem specific
> to ebuild/econf.  All packages bomb out with:
> 
>  

Hi,

I've got GENTOO running on three SPARC boxes. There was a buggy package
that has since been masked that has caused failures.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-435291.html

I replaced /bin/expr Re "emerge --sync" and it carried on fine.

I can give you the binary but I doubt you're running on SPARC ;-(