THE SECOND PROBLEM concerns installing gnuplot. As I've said, everything was installe by emerge and, according to emerge -tpuD gnuplot evarything needed is installed except with the gnuplot itself.
What is given by emerge to STDOUT I shall not include here (about 45kB...) but on the first sight there's nothing suspicious (to me, but I'm not an experienced Linux user...). The result on STDERR is: configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used. configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used. configure: WARNING: Please see INSTALL for a required readline bugfix. svgalib: Cannot open /dev/svga Is svgalib_helper module loaded? make[2]: *** [eg1.tex] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: media-gfx/gnuplot-4.0-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 67, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. When doing modprobe svgalib_helper the only result is (on STDERR): FATAL: Error inserting svgalib_helper (/lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r6/kernel/misc/svgalib_helper.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) dmesg gives a lot of text, ending with: 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html 0000:00:10.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0x7480. Vers LK1.1.19 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/a9 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/10 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/a10 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/11 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/a11 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/4 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/a4 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/5 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/a5 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/6 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/a6 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/7 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/a7 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/8 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/a8 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/9 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/2 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/a2 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/a9 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/3 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/a3 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/10 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/a10 svgalib_helper: Unknown symbol devfs_mk_symlink If it be of some help, I can include whole listing (about 14kB...) The question is: what to do to install gnuplot? Regards. -- Marcin Balcerzak
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