Quoting Davide Ricci from Dec 12
>
> Hi,
> 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 ( which had been already reported in bugzilla but
> not fixed and marked as 'can't resolve' ) that broke the whole process.
> So 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 indeed(I thought it could be a bug(?) in g++'s memory management
> and thought that breakin up the compilation in unit could help ). 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/* / ?)
you can usually do this with "ebuild qt-3.2.2-r1.ebuild install"
followed by "ebuild qt-3.2.2-r1 qmerge" in /usr/portage/x11-libs/qt.
(Yes that is qmerge, not merge.)
This should cause portage to install everything right and register qt
in its database.
See man ebuild for more.
Greets,
Peter G.
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