On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 08:50:48AM -0800, Patrick Mauro wrote: > Hello, once again :) > > So I'm trying to emerge kde. > Portage informed me that one of the dependencies for kde was xft2. > Okay, so it's trying to emerge xft2, however when it builds xft2 I get the following >error: > > /usr/include/fontconfig.h:2760:stray '\2' in program > and it repeats many times with different numbers in place of \2 > and ends with > /usr/include/fontconfig.h:2760:confused by earlier errors bailing out > > So I tried what little delving I could, now unfortunately I'm at work right now and >my computer isn't, and we don't have port forwarding set up on the firewall yet, so >even if I had configured sshd I couldn't just log in and try (although it's on my >plan to set that up tonight). So I'm sorry if I can't provide tonnes of details or >if some of my info may even be incorrect. > > But I did some looking and I found that xft 2.0.1-r1 is masked, 2.0-r1 is unmasked. >My system should not be taking masked files (I haven't looked in make.defaults, but I >never specified ~x86 in make.conf). I think it's trying to install 2.0.1-r1, >although I can't say for certain. > > Any tips on what to try? One suggestion I heard was to try ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" >emerge -p kde and see if there were other packages that kde or xft wanted that >weren't included because they're masked.
I'd look at the actual /usr/include/fontconfig.h file and see if there is a stray random character at that line (2760). I've had this a couple of times and think it might have to do with an overoptimized tar or gzip. -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- "The only thing that experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing. -- Andre Maurois (Emile Herzog) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
