[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Fish schrieb: On 11/23/05, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I disagree. Check the output of emerge -pv dev-db/mysql. No, look at the ebuilds in portage: The mysql builds currently available are: [...] mysql-4.1.15.ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: Since syncing yesterday and emerge -u world, I now get mysql-5.0.16-r1 when I emerge mysql. It doesn't have the docs built either regardless of what USE variable are in force. Are there in fact docs available for this version yet? From MYSQL, I mean, not Gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:44:05 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Are there in fact docs available for this version yet? From MYSQL, I mean, not Gentoo. Yes, in various formats from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/. Except that most of those flags are no longer valid for the unstable version...

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] good info Of course, you might want to upgrade to -r2, since clearly some things didn't work in -r1 (in ebuild terms) You might also want to stick with stable until things settle down a bit. Just my 2 Eurocents, as you see, I'm not a MySQL

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone here who has perused mysql.com will know it is a difficult task to find basic information there. This was something of a boneheaded undertaking at mysql.com. Somewhere I got that address as the source of docs etc. For any other interested party

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course, you might want to upgrade to -r2, since clearly some things didn't work in -r1 (in ebuild terms) You might also want to stick with stable until things settle down a bit. Holly, Thanks for the usual helpful

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] There was a note at the end of the emerge: * You might want to run: * emerge --config =dev-db/mysql-5.0.16-r2 * if this is a new install. did you do this? (First I've backed of 5.16 since I couldn't even start it from: /etc/init.d/mysql

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, in various formats from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/. Thanks... have you noticed under the most promising heading: Post-Installation Setup and Testing there are only directions for windows or specific `unix' users? And that the linux directions

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] You influence it, by setting USE flags. I'd guess, that doc would be the USE flag you're looking for. So, put something like dev-db/mysql doc to /etc/portage/package.use: echo dev-db/mysql doc /etc/portage/package.use Just looking at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
Harry Putnam wrote: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] You influence it, by setting USE flags. I'd guess, that doc would be the USE flag you're looking for. So, put something like dev-db/mysql doc to /etc/portage/package.use: echo dev-db/mysql doc

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Mattias Merilai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: seems that it does not look for a doc USE flag. You will have to manually change the ebuild to --with-docs. Gentoo's ebuild howto will explain you how to do that. And this can be foundwhere? I've been jerking around on gentoo.org for over 1/2 hr

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Me too. Seems that the system didn't get that change. Please send output of: grep dev-db/mysql /etc/portage/package.use dev-db/mysql mysql mysqli dev-db/mysql doc dev-db/mysql ndb-doc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/23/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/23/05, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And this can be foundwhere? /usr/portage/profiles/use*.desc Oops, sorry, thought you were asking about where to find the USE flag. I was reading out-of-order...and not thinking right.

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /usr/portage/profiles/use*.desc Those are a HOWTO about creating ebuilds? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Assuming you really need a specific version of mysql, and do not want to merge a version that already has the doc USE flag, the general idea is that you will want to: I don't need a specific version I simply want the docs to be built. Adding a use flag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:56:43 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I don't need a specific version I simply want the docs to be built. Adding a use flag of doc or docs does not cause it to be built. At least not in what was current portage day before yesterday. That's because

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Francesco R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Snipped good info here ... Thanks also the configure option you see at compile time may _not_ be the same the ebuild used, _but_ what the ebuild set always override the MySQL default. So we cannot really tell what is passed to the compiler?

[gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mattias Merilai wrote: I do not know much about mysql, but looking at the latest ebuild it seems that it does not look for a doc USE flag. I disagree. Check the output of emerge -pv dev-db/mysql. The original output I posted: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Francesco R.
Alle 19:37, mercoledì 23 novembre 2005, Harry Putnam el ga butta: |Francesco R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | |[...] Snipped good info here ... Thanks | | also the configure option you see at compile time may _not_ be | the same the ebuild used, _but_ what the ebuild set always |

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to alter ./configure flags from emerge

2005-11-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Me too. Seems that the system didn't get that change. Please send output of: grep dev-db/mysql /etc/portage/package.use dev-db/mysql mysql mysqli dev-db/mysql doc dev-db/mysql ndb-doc Harry, put all the USE