On 09/14/14 18:57, Samuli Suominen wrote:
On 14/09/14 18:46, Joseph wrote:I get a strange error when trying to emerge xscreensaver" checking for bc... no configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a standard part of Unix since the 1970s. Come back when your vendor has grown a clue. What is "bc"?It's calculator application and it's listed as a dependency in the xscreensaver ebuild in the official Portage tree: ssuominen@null ~/gentoo-x86/x11-misc/xscreensaver $ grep sys-devel/bc *.ebuild xscreensaver-5.29.ebuild: sys-devel/bc xscreensaver-5.30.ebuild: sys-devel/bc So no way to "emerge xscreensaver" without having sys-devel/bc getting installed first.
The problem was sys-devel/bc. I had it installed. Re-emerging sys-devel/bc solved the problem. -- Joseph
