of packages is being
emerged, this can add up to a lot of time.
Is there some way I can eliminate this warning without removing
the -m64 option?
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by
default) and everything will be fine.
Thanks for the clarification. I'll take this advice and remove the
-m64 option.
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myself will not muck things up for me.
From what I've read in the Gentoo manuals, there does not seem to be
a way to signal to portage that a certain package has been separately
installed. In my opinion, something like this could be useful for
some users.
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crashes immediately after entering text unless I specify a file on
the command line.
So there are other problems indeed. The cooledit source code has been
stagnant for some time and probably needs a lot of updating.
At least the patch I included in my original post works for me.
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editing capabilities.
It seems that all the crashes can be eliminated by following these two steps.
So far I haven't had any difficulty and hope the problem is now solved
completely.
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.
Yet, unless I am missing something, Gentoo does not seem to embody this
same flexibility, at least not in a simple manner. All packages have
to go under /usr only.
Is this actually the case or is there a way to change the installation
prefix?
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, but it would work.
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packages that are built by emerge.
This script will work for most, but not all packages. But I know
which ones can easily be moved and which ones can't.
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updated glibc to
2.10.1 and now have a broken pdnsd?
Until this problem is resolved I have switched to using named from
the BIND package as a caching name server, but named is a heavyweight
compared to pdnsd and does not preserve the cache at shutdown.
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problems if the user decides to
eliminate
the /etc/resolv.conf file.
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great issues with always installing the latest bleeding
edge software.
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such a topic, but after
deciding to switch to Gentoo only a few months ago, a certain blog post
has captured my attention:
http://ben.liveforge.org/2009/06/04/gentoo-dying
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...
That is a good solution. It's a lot of learning a lot of work, but
it's a good solution.
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of study before I can write even
a simple ebuild.
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to quickly update.
There is also a configuration tool available for Openbox, but since
I have never used it I cannot comment about it.
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it be safer and also avoid swapping
to set nr_inodes=1M or is the default good enough?.
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it produce a No more space left on device
error? Or is the system designed to extend the tmpfs through swapping?
The latter option doesn't seem right, but everyone still refers to such
behavior.
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if
anyone else has successfully updated these three packages or if anyone
else has encountered this same type of build failure.
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On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:53:07 -0400
Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote:
log reports the following:
ERROR: sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41.8 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_install
environment, line 2607: Called gen_usr_ldscript '-a' 'e2p' 'ext2fs
. Fortunately, Gentoo can give
the serious user a set of tools to better deal with these inevitable changes.
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for everyone? I searched
google and bugs.gentoo.org for the above line 415 error message but
found nothing, and I can't believe that no one else has so far
missed it. A bug like this should have been spotted immediately,
yet re-emerging python-updater gives the same error.
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/etc FOO=$(cat (ls -a /etc | grep mtab)) echo $FOO
Does this produce an error?
What about this command:
cd /etc FOO=$(cat $(ls -a /etc | grep mtab)) echo $FOO
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an unmodified eselect without error?
Is there more to this issue than meets the eye?
I can't file a bug report on this until I get some confirmation.
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rather
annoying to me.
USE=net -afs -bashlogger -examples -nls -plugins -vanilla
But I also compiled with vanilla and the results are the same.
Maybe in time I can gain some more insight into this behavior but
right now I am stumped.
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On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:40:00 -0500
Lance Lassetter lancelasset...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you post the bug number here to the list?
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280174
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280191
It all boils down to the issue of POSIX compliance.
FP
computation.
That's my view of things.
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accomplish with a few mouse clicks within KDE or Gnome. To me, the whole
point of computing is to be in total awareness and control of the computer.
Fortunately, Linux (and Gentoo) still provides that minimalist opportunity.
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., etc., etc., and then even burned onto another CD/DVD or medium
of choice.
Let's see KDE with its 10,000 (I jest) support libraries top that.
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be associated with several PID's. Make sure to
kill, using the above command, all of the PID's that are involved.
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. Sometimes, however,
as you indicate, even kill -s 9 will fail and a reboot is the only way to
eliminate the process.
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ancestor of wrong type: #unknown object 26393312 not a
singleton node
The build is failing as it tries to create the extra documentation.
If you don't need or want the extra documentation, then just
add -doc to your USE flags and the extra docs won't be built.
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.
Other distros do not, and the single user has to grapple with
this unnecessary complexity.
Choice is the keyword, but I fear that user choices will become
more limited in the future.
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report. The new
option doesn't seem too thrilling. I'd rather do all such conversions
using software in user space.
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a symlink, which will
be one of gcc, g++, c++. The last two chars of the link name are thus
appended to sparc-unknown-linux-gnu-g to form the name of an execuatable,
e.g. /usr/lib/distcc/bin/sparc-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc.
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try it out. Copy the following two lines to a file, give the file
executable permission, and create different symbolic links to it.
Then invoke the file using any of the symlinks.
#! /bin/bash
echo ${0:$[-2]}
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want to post this build log, or at least the
tail portion of it, to the list.
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getbinpkg.py file, but I don't know the purpose
of this file.
Doing an Internet search reveals only one other report of this
behavior but no answers were given.
Has anyone else seen this?
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On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:59:44 + (UTC)
Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote:
Frank Peters posted on Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:02:15 -0400 as excerpted:
Recently, after an emerge I will sometimes see this message in bold red
colors:
!!! CANNOT IMPORT HTTP.CLIENT: cannot import name
into this matter, I need to
inquire if any other users have lost their zoom keys with this
update. Zoom keys are enabled by default so everyone should
have access to them.
Probably a bug report need to be files with Xorg.
Frank Peters
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:31:46 -0400
Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote:
The zoom key issue, however, is a different matter. At first
I thought that using xrandr to change screen resolutions would
be an adequate substitute. Xrandr does work, but the resulting
screen layout is much
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Scroll down to the end of that forum post.
The fault seems to be the source code. A not declared in this scope error
means that a header file was not included somewhere. Revdep-rebuild would
not be able to identify that.
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.
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using.
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it.
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.
This was quite a surprise to me, but it also tends to indicate that
the fault is with the module and the kernel. The module should load
immediately and there should be no delay.
Possibly there is some additional kernel option that needs to
be set but I cannot imagine what it could be.
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is not configured
correctly for handling firmware.
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.
Incidentally, the Gentoo boot script for microcode_ctl is not correct.
It uses a -d option to specify the microcode device:
microcode_ctl -d /dev/cpu/microcode
But the -d option does not exist. The device is specified at
compile time.
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to accurately
reflect the state my system, but, based upon this current observation,
portage may fail to keep it accurate in the future.
What is going on here?
Frank Peters
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:43:09 -0500
Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote:
Why has portage failed to add all packages to the world file?
Have I been doing something wrong?
Well, I found the answer to my own question. From the portage man
page:
Every time you emerge a package
of customization is that both Python
and Sqlite supposedly perform better with -O3 in the CFLAGS variable.
By making an appropriate entry into /etc/portage/env one can specify
-O3 just for these packages but use -O2 for all other packages.
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On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:12:34 +0800
Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote:
my system is gentoo amd64. i want to get the edid info. for my
monitor. the read-edid package would do this, but it only works in
32bit env.
Latest read-edid now works on amd64. Just emerge read-edid.
Frank
or sound or something similar. Is this correct?
These are minor points but it is always better to understand what's
happening than not understand.
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sources package), while media-libs/alsa-lib and
sys-libs/glibc would use /usr/include/linux (linux-headers package).
This is the information that I needed. Now it's clear what is
happening.
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are equally important. The argument is much more
than empty rhetoric.
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, then perl-cleaner --modules will remove the
old XML-Parser module and install the new.
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and without needing an
Internet connection.
Would this method be feasible? Unless I am overlooking some details
of the emerge process, I don't see any problems with it.
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the question on this list.
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that this is not correct. Should a bug report be filed?
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what has been listed.
I thought that the purpose of package.provided was broader, but
I guess that it serves only to record dependencies for other packages.
Thanks for clearing that up.
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routines should be enabled? There are a lot of individual routines
within the crypto API.
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of the kernel.
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to this list.
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slot regardless. I've already recompiled
some packages without problem using 5.4.1. I'll keep it as the default compiler
and slowly let the system rebuild over time.
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at best, and because creating comprehensive documentation would be a gigantic
task, it will probably always be so.
Forums are the best solution. Just post a question or concern and hope
that some compiler guru or numerical analysis expert is lurking.
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, the gcc compiler is the only option.
I also thought trying the Intel ICC compiler, but no version is
available for a pure 64-bit system (i.e. no multilib). It seems
that those highly paid Intel programmers, even after many years,
can't produce a pure 64-bit Linux version.
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-graphite-all).
But for those who may want a brief synopsis of both Graphite and
LTO, check this thread:
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20641#post102275
As with any forum, the information may not be totally accurate
but it's a good place to start.
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,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common -s
See the link:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6394901.html?sid=9a5afd453e6039723b2d0842a53c2d5c
Basically, the advice is to simplify the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS:
CFLAGS=-O2 --march=native --pipe
LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu
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for these packages. The reason
for failure will be found in the logs.
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the manual.
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64-bit systems.
I hate to proselytize, but it seems to me that grub has been pushed
into the Linux world without merit. Lilo does the job just as well.
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nv, but there are some occasions when I require
the full power of the proprietary nvidia.
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.
The legacy boot method is being slowly eliminated and will be
replaced by EFI. For this there is elilo, which I hope to be
using.
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.
Lilo maintenance has been taken over by people at Debian:
http://lilo.alioth.debian.org/
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years, but
a 64-bit Flash (as well as other software) probably won't be finalized
before an entire decade has elapsed.
I really couldn't care less about Flash, but I would like to have
a 64-bit Foxit PDF reader. Xpdf is a fine project, but it can't
fill in forms or annotate a document.
Frank
/portage/env
and put specific variables in there. I do this with CFLAGS. It should work
for any make.conf variables.
See these links:
http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-u...@lists.gentoo.org/msg54130.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-499881-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html
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.
If someone can verify this problem, then Gentoo ghostscript must be the fault.
If no one else can reproduce the issue then I am somehow in possession of a
jinxed system (although the same problem exists on both of my Gentoo machines).
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image-test.ps
Description: PostScript document
.
I can now see why the Gentoo deveolpers are being so cautious by considering
these latest GCC options as being experimental.
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functioning
sound?
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has the inclination for exploration then
there is much that can be done to go well beyond the standard methods.
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:
strace amixer
The output may show where the problem lies.
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that for the previous Core2 duo you already have the multi-core
scheduler support, SCHED_MC, selected.
Beyond these small changes, nothing new is required. Just pop the
new quad in and go.
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-libs/libX11-1.4.2/image/usr/lib64/libX11-xcb.la
Removing unnecessary ... x11-libs/libX11-1.4.2/image/usr/lib64/libX11.la
So the .la files are being produced but are being removed afterwards.
Does anyone else have a missing /usr/lib64/libX11.la file?
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the reason for the removal of the .la files from Gentoo.
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, and, in fact, I believe that this kind of condition had caused
my original .la file not found problem.
So the .la issue is definitely something for everyone to keep in mind,
and especially for those who may self-install an occasional extra package.
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dependencies in the ebuild, it'll track them too.
Now that's a very good idea. I will have to start doing this. I've been
using my own build scripts from a long time back, but this is definitely
a better way to go.
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command. This will capture everything that is sent to the
console, either via the keyboard or STDOUT/STDERR.
script /path/to/output/file
command 1
command 2
...
exit
See the man page for script.
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machines and the results are terrible. But other machines (like SunOS)
aced everything.
Another good test is paranoia:
http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/c_src/paranoia/paranoia.html
Linux used to flop during some portions of this test but now it gets
a perfect score.
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machine these are 1.567
and -3.74 ulps, so the error is small.
In contrast, the LOG(X) function passes the test but it still shows
errors of 0.532 and -0.531 ulps.
Frank Peters
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:41:11 -0400
Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote:
/tmp/fp-test-results/clib_DP.output: ucbtest UCBFAIL in cabsd at line 701 for
double
The culprit seems to be GCC optimization. If I run the test with either -O0
or -O1 flags I can eliminate the cabsd failure
and has no problem. Then I'll really start to bang my head.
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for this! It does seem to verify that gcc-4.5.2 does mangle the code
for this particular test.
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have to research
this one.
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is a very abstruse area
that few people want to bother with and that even fewer possess the
qualifications for.
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optimization. So I will be using
GCC-4.6.0 from now on.
But the problem does deserve some looking into, I would think.
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.
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. But the use of -fno-strict-aliasing will
apply with the UCBTEST as well.
Thanks again for the information.
Frank Peters
presented this issue. It has definitely improved
my understanding. GCC has dozens, if not hundreds, of compile options
and I know the actual function of only a small few.
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the option -mno-sse4 is used, and so if
you want to use SSE4 for certain programs (e.g. video, audio) you will
need to specifically enable it.
There may be an even slicker way to reveal the flags, but this is the
only way I know.
Frank Peters
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:53:45 +0300
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
You can alias them with a char* (a char pointer can alias everything in
a valid and defined manner). What you do is use the char* to scan over
the target type. And since a char is always guaranteed to be 8 bits,
is the binary version from the OO web site.
Also, LibreOffice, which I installed (from binary) as a possible
fix, gives the same error message.
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