On Friday 12 December 2003 23:59, Davide Ricci wrote: > I did install gentoo on my machine starting from a stage2 tarball. > After bringing up the minimum system wanted to install the KDE and did a > # emerge -u kde > > But the compilation wasn't successful since the ebuild 'qt-3.2.2-r1' > exploited a bug in the g++ compiler that broke the whole process. I managed > to compile qt by hand , just by typing 'make' in every single dir that made > up the sources (i.e. the dirs in /var/tmp/portage/qt...) , and that > succeeded. As a final note: I used the makefiles as provided by the > 'configure' script launched by emerge. > > Now , my questions: > 1) How can I know how to put everything in place , i.e. where to put the > libraries, headers and alike? (trying to guess: cp -r > /var/tmp/portage/qt-3.2.2-r1/image/* / ?)
Take a look at "man ebuild". Running "ebuild <path/to/ebuild> install" followed by "ebuild <path/to/ebuild> merge" should have done what you wanted and portage would still account for the files installed. > 2) Even if a 'make install' would suffice (it does not actually) if i do an > #emerge -up kde > > I still see qt-3.2.2-r1 marked as [ N ] > > 'cause of course portage isn't aware of the recent build. Is there a way to > manually update the pkgs' db? See above. Regards, Jason Stubbs -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
