On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Walter Dnes <[email protected]> wrote: > And no, it's not because I'm adventurous. Background... I'm trying to > revive an older Dell Dimension 530 (32 bit install) with a Radeon card > that uses a binary blob from the radeon-ucode ebuild/download. When > trying to "emerge xorg-server", it fails with the message... > > configure: error: LLVM is required to build Gallium R300 on x86 and x86_64 > > I understand that LLVM is a "gcc-like" compiler. What is the minimum > amount of stuff that I need to do? Are there any LLVM-compatability > libraries for gcc that would do this build?
llvm is pulled in on most of my systems as a dependency of something else. It doesn't conflict with having gcc installed. emerge sys-devel/llvm And try again. If that fixes it, you should file a bug against the specific package failing to build, noting the missing explicit build dependency. -- :wq
