WiiLi.org

[cakofony]

I use 64-bit gentoo on my box, and lately I havent been able to emerge/compile anything. After reviewing the build logs, I found that my /usr/local/include directory was replaced by a cwiid header.

i dont really know how to fix this problem, but I have a thread going in the gentoo forums with this same username
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3946533.html#3946533

I do really love this program though, and I have had tons of fun with it, though it would be great if this bug was fixed...

[Shinbo]

Just do:
rm /usr/local/include
mkdir /usr/local/include
chown root:root /usr/local/include

then reinstall cwiid

[abstrakraft]

My apologies - the bug has been fixed, and checked into the svn repository.
No need to worry about your system - the error occurs when /usr/local/include doesn't exist, so you didn't lose any files.
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[cakofony]

cool, thanks. apparently it was just messing with portage so I couldn't install anything, but I created the directory and it works fine now

[abstrakraft]

It wasn't actually portage specific - any program that tried to treat /usr/local/include as a directory (such as gcc) would have errored out.

The culprit was lines of the form "cp wiimote.h /usr/local/include", which works fine, assuming /usr/local/include exists, but if it doesn't, copies wiimote.h to a file named include in the /usr/local directory.

I feel bad about this. I use gentoo myself, and I know from being on the other side of the fence that screwing up the OS is a quick way to get people pissed off at you.

Anyway, thanks for pointing it out, thankfully the problem is easily fixed (some might assume that /usr/local/include is over-written - this is not the case, as the bug only occurs when /usr/local/include didn't exist in the first place), and the bug has been patched.
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"I seldom let practicality get in the way of my fascination with shiny things and blinky lights."
- some guy
http://abstrakraft.org/cwiid