[gentoo-user] Checking the reason for (-useflags) in brackets

2014-06-21 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, for some applications I want to activate some USE flags, which are disabled by default. Some of those USE flags are set in () brackets. From searching the internet I learned, that this may be due to unresolveable dependencies or settings in the make.profile or Is there a way to exactly

Re: [gentoo-user] Checking the reason for (-useflags) in brackets

2014-06-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 21/06/2014 11:19, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, for some applications I want to activate some USE flags, which are disabled by default. Some of those USE flags are set in () brackets. From searching the internet I learned, that this may be due to unresolveable dependencies or

Re: [gentoo-user] Checking the reason for (-useflags) in brackets

2014-06-21 Thread meino . cramer
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com [14-06-21 12:36]: On 21/06/2014 11:19, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, for some applications I want to activate some USE flags, which are disabled by default. Some of those USE flags are set in () brackets. From searching the internet I

[gentoo-user] checking whether the C compiler works... no Oooops !!

2011-05-06 Thread Dale
Hi, I'm trying to update my old rig, the x86 one. It is about 2 months or so behind. I wanted to get it ready for the latest KDE for my brother to play on. I keep running into this type of error: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether to disable maintainer-specific

Re: [gentoo-user] checking whether the C compiler works... no Oooops !!

2011-05-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
This is usually CFLAGS and other bits of env stuff. There's probably a more meaningful error earlier in the build log. Can you post the full log for a failing file? Apparently, though unproven, at 09:45 on Friday 06 May 2011, Dale did opine thusly: Hi, I'm trying to update my old rig,

Re: [gentoo-user] checking whether the C compiler works... no Oooops !!

2011-05-06 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: This is usually CFLAGS and other bits of env stuff. There's probably a more meaningful error earlier in the build log. Can you post the full log for a failing file? Here is one: Emerging (1 of 5) x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf-2.22.1 * gdk-pixbuf-2.22.1.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1

[gentoo-user] Checking an HD for problems

2010-09-22 Thread Grant
I just switched to a new WD Caviar Black hard drive (really fast and quiet!) and I noticed some errors when I was cp -ax'ing everything from my old drive to the new drive which were accompanied by loud clicks. Is there a way to do a comprehensive test/check of the old drive to see if it has any

Re: [gentoo-user] Checking an HD for problems

2010-09-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I just switched to a new WD Caviar Black hard drive (really fast and quiet!) and I noticed some errors when I was cp -ax'ing everything from my old drive to the new drive which were accompanied by loud clicks.  Is there a way

Re: [gentoo-user] Checking an HD for problems

2010-09-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Sep 2010, at 17:46, Grant wrote: ... I noticed some errors when I was cp -ax'ing everything from my old drive to the new drive which were accompanied by loud clicks. Is there a way to do a comprehensive test/check of the old drive to see if it has any problems? You don't need to do a

Re: [gentoo-user] Checking sanity of system...

2010-04-04 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, this is no security issue in sense of attacks...it is related to the consistency of the system. Simple question (and may be complicate to answer... ;) ) How can I check, that my Gentoo system is uptodate, consistent and sane? Best regards, mcc I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Checking sanity of system...

2010-04-04 Thread meino . cramer
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [10-04-04 08:20]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, this is no security issue in sense of attacks...it is related to the consistency of the system. Simple question (and may be complicate to answer... ;) ) How can I check, that my Gentoo system is uptodate,

Re: [gentoo-user] Checking sanity of system...

2010-04-04 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 04.04.2010 07:18, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, this is no security issue in sense of attacks...it is related to the consistency of the system. Simple question (and may be complicate to answer... ;) ) How can I check, that my Gentoo system is uptodate, consistent and sane? Best

Re: [gentoo-user] Checking sanity of system...

2010-04-04 Thread u.sch...@bluewin.ch
Von: nor...@smash-net.org Datum: 04.04.2010 11:37 An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Betreff: Re: [gentoo-user] Checking sanity of system... Am 04.04.2010 07:18, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, this is no security issue in sense of attacks...it is related to the consistency of the system

[gentoo-user] Checking sanity of system...

2010-04-03 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, this is no security issue in sense of attacks...it is related to the consistency of the system. Simple question (and may be complicate to answer... ;) ) How can I check, that my Gentoo system is uptodate, consistent and sane? Best regards, mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for working mkstemp..... taking forever

2010-01-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: I've encountered the same and didn't know how to solve it. I found out that mkstemp was some standard C function so I remerged glibc, but that didn't do the trick. Eventuella I restarted my installation. It as i686 with 32 bit though. Did you change CHOST maybe?

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for working mkstemp..... taking forever

2009-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 September 2009 01:16:10 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Nick Khamis: Hello Everyone. I am trying to update-python and I am stuck at checking for working mkstemp. for ever, what should I do.. This is a fresh install AMD64. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for working mkstemp..... taking forever

2009-09-02 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 13:12:22 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 02 September 2009 01:16:10 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Nick Khamis: Hello Everyone. I am trying to update-python and I am stuck at checking for working

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for working mkstemp..... taking forever

2009-09-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 September 2009 16:13:12 Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 13:12:22 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 02 September 2009 01:16:10 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Nick Khamis: Hello Everyone. I

[gentoo-user] checking for working mkstemp..... taking forever

2009-09-01 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone. I am trying to update-python and I am stuck at checking for working mkstemp. for ever, what should I do.. This is a fresh install AMD64. Thanks in Advanced, Ninus.

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for working mkstemp..... taking forever

2009-09-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Nick Khamis: Hello Everyone. I am trying to update-python and I am stuck at checking for working mkstemp. for ever, what should I do.. This is a fresh install AMD64. Thanks in Advanced, Ninus. I've encountered the same and didn't know how to

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for working mkstemp..... taking forever

2009-09-01 Thread Nick Khamis
I did not change CHOST just CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS as per the manual. h Regards, Ninus

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-03 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are expecting autoconf to actually do something sane when it runs??? *rofl* The point is: the way autoconf does its 'checks' is completely insane - beginning with the expectation that an dumb script is more clever than an operator ;-o I've did

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-02 Thread Wolf Canis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to current 2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff. Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so far makes me wonder if there wouldn't be someway to cache all those answers somewhere so

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-02 Thread Brandon Mintern
ccache caches the compile step. I believe the OP was specifically looking for something that would cache the answers to the checking for lines (the configuration step). On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Wolf Canis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Hello, ccache does caching, I use it and

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-02 Thread Wolf Canis
Brandon Mintern wrote: ccache caches the compile step. I believe the OP was specifically looking for something that would cache the answers to the checking for lines (the configuration step). Yes, you are right, but I thought that ccache cached parts of the configuration too. That's what

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-02 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 02 May 2008 11:25:41 +0200 Wolf Canis wrote: Brandon Mintern wrote: ccache caches the compile step. I believe the OP was specifically looking for something that would cache the answers to the checking for lines (the configuration step). Yes, you are right, but I thought that

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-02 Thread b.n.
Brandon Mintern ha scritto: I had thought the same thing myself some time ago, and I discovered that there had been work on a FEATURE called confcache. I believe it was abandoned, though, due to major difficulties. This is merely a guess, but I think some of the problems arise in that some of

[gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-01 Thread reader
In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to current 2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff. Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so far makes me wonder if there wouldn't be someway to cache all those answers somewhere so whatever test is done for each

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-01 Thread Brandon Mintern
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to current 2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff. Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so far makes me wonder if there wouldn't be someway to

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 01 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to current 2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff. Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so far makes me wonder if there wouldn't be someway to cache all those

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 01 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to current 2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff. Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so far makes me

[gentoo-user] checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

2007-08-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, emerge gnome fails. Does anyone recognize what portage is complaining about here? Thanks, Mark dragonfly ~ # emerge -pvDuN gnome These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.18.1 [2.16.3-r1] USE=hal ipv6

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

2007-08-11 Thread Canek Peláez
On 8/11/07, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, emerge gnome fails. Does anyone recognize what portage is complaining about here? I'm not really sure, but I solved it by reemerging dev-perl/XML-Parser. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

2007-08-11 Thread Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas
On Saturday 11 August 2007 20:53:59 Canek Peláez wrote: On 8/11/07, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, emerge gnome fails. Does anyone recognize what portage is complaining about here? I'm not really sure, but I solved it by reemerging dev-perl/XML-Parser. -- Canek Peláez

Re: [gentoo-user] checking local packages against portage

2006-06-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:17:46 -0600, Joseph wrote: How to check packages that are installed on my system but are no longer available in portage (so I can remove them)? emerge -uavDN world should show them up. I get this on one machine These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

[gentoo-user] checking local packages against portage

2006-06-06 Thread Joseph
Recently I found out that I had an old package avifile installed on my system but it was no longer in portage. How to check packages that are installed on my system but are no longer available in portage (so I can remove them)? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] checking local packages against portage

2006-06-06 Thread Ryan Tandy
Joseph wrote: Recently I found out that I had an old package avifile installed on my system but it was no longer in portage. How to check packages that are installed on my system but are no longer available in portage (so I can remove them)? /usr/sbin/emaint --check --

Re: [gentoo-user] checking local packages against portage

2006-06-06 Thread Teresa and Dale
Ryan Tandy wrote: Joseph wrote: Recently I found out that I had an old package avifile installed on my system but it was no longer in portage. How to check packages that are installed on my system but are no longer available in portage (so I can remove them)? /usr/sbin/emaint --check

Re: [gentoo-user] checking local packages against portage

2006-06-06 Thread Joseph
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 20:57 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -pv portage These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.54-r2 -build +doc (-selinux) 0 kB Total size of

Re: [gentoo-user] checking local packages against portage

2006-06-06 Thread Ryan Tandy
Teresa and Dale wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emaint --check usage: emaint [options] all | world Currently emaint can only check and fix problems with one's world file. Future versions will integrate other portage check-and-fix tools and provide a single interface to system health checks.

Re: [gentoo-user] checking local packages against portage

2006-06-06 Thread Teresa and Dale
Ryan Tandy wrote: Teresa and Dale wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emaint --check usage: emaint [options] all | world Currently emaint can only check and fix problems with one's world file. Future versions will integrate other portage check-and-fix tools and provide a single interface to

Re: [gentoo-user] checking local packages against portage

2006-06-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 7. Juni 2006 02:17 schrieb ext Joseph: Recently I found out that I had an old package avifile installed on my system but it was no longer in portage. How to check packages that are installed on my system but are no longer available in portage (so I can remove them)? It seems