On 14/09/14 18:46, Joseph wrote: > I get a strange error when trying to emerge xscreensaver" > > checking for bc... no > > configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a > standard > part of Unix since the 1970s. Come back when your > vendor > has grown a clue. > > What is "bc"? >
It's calculator application and it's listed as a dependency in the xscreensaver ebuild in the official Portage tree: ssuominen@null ~/gentoo-x86/x11-misc/xscreensaver $ grep sys-devel/bc *.ebuild xscreensaver-5.29.ebuild: sys-devel/bc xscreensaver-5.30.ebuild: sys-devel/bc So no way to "emerge xscreensaver" without having sys-devel/bc getting installed first.
