Hello,

I just wanted to report in that efl-1.20.6 with enlightenment-0.22.1 and
terminology-1.1.1 work great on a new gentoo install.  I wanted to
document what I did and this is based on looking at my bash history.

My equipment is:

$ uname -a
Linux localhost 4.12.12-gentoo #6 SMP Sun Dec 17 04:58:03 MST 2017
x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

I installed using the information at:

https://www.enlightenment.org/download

as the repositories for enlightenment are a little dated on gentoo.

After doing a basic install of gentoo with a desktop profile I installed
the following before unpacking, compiling and installing enlightenment.

One caveat is that I had installed xfce before I tried installing
enlightenment so I may have pulled in other libraries beside what is
listed below.

emerge --ask lightdm
emerge --ask x11-base/xorg-server
emerge --ask firefox
emerge --ask automake ccache check doxygen faenza-icon-theme git imagemagick
emerge --ask bullet
emerge --ask pam
emerge --ask freetype
emerge --ask libpng
emerge --ask media-libs/jpeg
emerge --ask zlib
emerge --ask luajit
emerge --ask libXcursor
emerge --ask libXrender
emerge --ask libXrandr
emerge --ask libXfixes
emerge --ask libXdamage
emerge --ask libXcomposite
emerge --ask libxss
emerge --ask libXp
emerge --ask libXext
emerge --ask libXinerama
emerge --ask libxkbfile
emerge --ask libXtst
emerge --ask libxcb
emerge --ask xcb-util-keysyms
emerge --ask libpulse
emerge --ask libsndfile
emerge --ask libudev
emerge --ask udev
emerge --ask libmount
emerge --ask libgstreamer
emerge --ask gstreamer
emerge --ask vlc
emerge --ask tiff
emerge --ask tgif
emerge --ask giflib
emerge --ask curl
emerge --ask openssl
emerge --ask libspectre
emerge --ask poppler
emerge --ask librsvg
emerge --ask libraw
emerge --ask pcmanfm
emerge --ask fribidi
emerge --ask pulseaudio
emerge --ask pavucontrol
emerge --ask libXScrnSaver
emerge --ask gst-plugins-base
emerge --ask gst-plugins-bad
emerge --search gstreamer-tag
emerge --search gstreamer-pbutils
emerge --ask consolekit
emerge --ask pambase

Some of the libraries may not be needed as I was trying to guess what
should be downloaded and installed based on the info on the website.

Then I just followed all the steps on the enlightenment website starting
with the build environment.

I used ./configure --disable-systemd for both efl and enlightenment
which was the whole point of using gentoo in the first place.  :-)

I created the link:

ln -s /usr/local/share/dbus-1/services/org.enlightenment.Ethumb.service
~/.local/share/dbus-1/services/org.enlightenment.Ethumb.service

after configuring efl.

At the end I copied the desktop file to the right place for lightdm to
pick it up using:

cp /usr/local/share/xsessions/enlightenment.desktop /usr/share/xsessions/


After a reboot I had a working enlightenment desktop environment.

I just wanted to thank all the developers and enlighenment.org website
creators for all the hard work you are doing in providing such a great
service for the community.

Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Eric






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