In the immortal words of Dave Nebinger: > > > Perhaps, however, you're trying to come up with the wrong solution to a > > > specific problem... What are you trying to solve? > > > > I'm trying to work around this > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43944 > > > > The other thing that's worked for me in the past in similar situations is > > to > > change the ebuild to strip the offending -pie flags, but that doesn't > > look like it will help in this case. > > Well, you could always insert the stub into the world file and manually > build and install the package:
That's a pretty good idea for certain packages (I might do it for the gimp if it still has similar problems) but in this case, I want to emerge mjpegtools as a dependency for the encode USE flag in k3b, and I don't want dependencies in my world file. I know it's a bit obsessive but this is a brand new installation and my world file is short and sweet. Depclean works very well this way, and I don't want to lose that. I may overlay mjpegtools and futz with the ebuild until I can get it to add/remove the proper arguments, or just emerge --oneshot --nodeps mjpegtools after changing the gcc profile, and then change it back, and hope nothing breaks. :) But I don't want to get into compiling and installing things outside of portage if I can at all help it. If I didn't care about package management, I'd run slackware or LFS :) > 1. ebuild /usr/portage/category/app/app-version.ebuild unpack. > 2. cd /var/tmp/portage/category/app/work/app-version > 3. do the ./configure etc. and choose your own gcc version and/or > CFLAGS/LDFLAGS. > 4. make && make install > > Assuming you can come up with the specific combination of compiler and/or > flags that you think will resolve the problem, you can get it compiled and > installed this way. > > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list -- "It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this." --Bertrand Russell. "The American empire is ideological, not territorial. We are the most ideological people in the world, and we are so united in our view that we don't understand there can be other views." --Lt. Gen. William Odom, ret. (Former Director of NSA). "Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love." --Charlie Brown "Let us endeavour to live our lives so that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry." --Mark Twain -- [email protected] mailing list
