Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses readline USE flag

2012-09-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 20:41:28 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I updated world yesterday, and discovered that bash functionality was severly degraded on my machine. No up-arrow to scroll through history, no tab-completion, etc, etc. A bit of Google searching turned up the fact that bash no-longer

[gentoo-user] Re: Some essential packages fail to compile

2012-09-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/09/12 14:31, Roland Häder wrote: I use distcc and two nodes are running 64 bit (this Gentoo is being installed on 32 bit hardware). Most packages works fine with it, so my guess is that some packages ignore the important gcc flags (-m32 / -march=i686) which results in compiling a 64 bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken GCC

2012-09-08 Thread Samuraiii
On 2012-09-08 02:33, Andrey Moshbear wrote: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Samuraiii samurai.no.d...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-09-07 19:38, Andrey Moshbear wrote: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Samuraiii samurai.no.d...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any tips for gentoo amd64 with core2duo?

[gentoo-user] Temporary data storage

2012-09-08 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, from Gentoos point of view: The following place I found, where temporary data are stored: /tmp /var/tmp /run /tmp /var/log ??? Where else are temprary data stored, which can thrown away when rebooting? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Temporary data storage

2012-09-08 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 08.09.2012 14:13, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, from Gentoos point of view: The following place I found, where temporary data are stored: /tmp /var/tmp /run /tmp /var/log ??? Where else are temprary data stored, which can thrown away when rebooting? Thank you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some essential packages fail to compile

2012-09-08 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/09/12 14:31, Roland Häder wrote: I use distcc and two nodes are running 64 bit (this Gentoo is being installed on 32 bit hardware). Most packages works fine with it, so my guess is that some packages ignore the

Re: [gentoo-user] Temporary data storage

2012-09-08 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.netwrote: Am 08.09.2012 14:13, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, from Gentoos point of view: The following place I found, where temporary data are stored: /tmp /var/tmp /run /tmp /var/log ??? Where

Aw: [gentoo-user] Re: Some essential packages fail to compile

2012-09-08 Thread Roland Häder
Isn't it a requirement that all nodes run Gentoo, with the same GCC version, and you must setup sys-devel/crossdev on each of them? I don't see how it could possibly work otherwise. In my first email I wrote that all other nodes have Debian installed, not Gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] Temporary data storage

2012-09-08 Thread meino . cramer
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [12-09-08 14:44]: On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.netwrote: Am 08.09.2012 14:13, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, from Gentoos point of view: The following place I found, where temporary data are stored: /tmp

Aw: [gentoo-user] Re: Some essential packages fail to compile

2012-09-08 Thread Roland Häder
Isn't it a requirement that all nodes run Gentoo, with the same GCC version, and you must setup sys-devel/crossdev on each of them? I don't see how it could possibly work otherwise. I see the same thing. The next text block I wrote that I have Debian 64 bits (aka AMD64) on all other

[gentoo-user] Re: Aw: Re: Some essential packages fail to compile

2012-09-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/09/12 15:54, Roland Häder wrote: Isn't it a requirement that all nodes run Gentoo, with the same GCC version, and you must setup sys-devel/crossdev on each of them? I don't see how it could possibly work otherwise. In my first email I wrote that all other nodes have Debian installed,

Aw: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Some essential packages fail to compile

2012-09-08 Thread Roland Häder
I was reading this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cross-compiling-distcc.xml I also read it far before I wrote my email. It specifically mentions you need crossdev: If you are cross-compiling between different subarchitectures for Intel x86 (e.g. i586 and i686), you must

[gentoo-user] GCC : another trap for the unwary

2012-09-08 Thread Philip Webb
My new machine is working compiles lightning-fast : it feels like the driver of a steam engine hurtling down the tracks (I've just finished a biography of J G Robinson, the UK loco designer). I've just recompiled most of the pkgs listed by 'emerge -ep system', but found a few problems : (1) Gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Temporary data storage

2012-09-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 14:59:16 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: noI am trying to minimize write cycles on a mmc-card by mounting tmpfs on those As long everything works fine I willing to hurt standards...since this is only a little singleboard computer and no world wide reachable

[gentoo-user] Possible fix for splashutils 1.5.4.4

2012-09-08 Thread Roland Häder
I ran into this trouble: -- /usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/../../../../lib/libfreetype.a(ftbzip2.o): In function `ft_bzip2_stream_close': (.text+0x121): undefined reference to `BZ2_bzDecompressEnd'

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC upgrade from 4.5.3 to 4.5.4 automatically removes 4.5.3???? Wtf???

2012-09-08 Thread James Cloos
If you want gcc's minor versions in their own slots, then you want the mutislot use flag: :; euses multislot sys-devel/gcc:multislot - Allow for SLOTs to include minor version (3.3.4 instead of just 3.3) -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC : another trap for the unwary

2012-09-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 10:47:47 -0400 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: My new machine is working compiles lightning-fast : it feels like the driver of a steam engine hurtling down the tracks (I've just finished a biography of J G Robinson, the UK loco designer). I've just recompiled

[gentoo-user] Puzzling lvm2 behavior?

2012-09-08 Thread walt
I've never expanded an lvm partition before, and I think I did it the long way around just now: I divided my 1TB disk into 10 equal pv's when I bought it, and then added four of those to a new vg (named wd0), leaving the other six for future use. After a few months of filling up that partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Puzzling lvm2 behavior?

2012-09-08 Thread Samurai
I do have 3 2tb drives with lvm2 on them recently I did resize some partitions (i didn't resize the vg - one drive one vg here) but I use lvresize -L ±nnG vg/lv to add exactly nn GB to desired lv an than online grow with resize2fs /dev/vg/lv I did this more than once and never encountered

Re: [gentoo-user] Puzzling lvm2 behavior?

2012-09-08 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 08.09.2012 20:20, schrieb walt: I've never expanded an lvm partition before, and I think I did it the long way around just now: I divided my 1TB disk into 10 equal pv's when I bought it, and then added four of those to a new vg (named wd0), leaving the other six for future use. After

Re: Aw: [gentoo-user] Re: Some essential packages fail to compile

2012-09-08 Thread Andrea Conti
One way is (if you have read any 'environment' files in my tar archive) to set the guest architecture explitcitly in /etc/(portage/)make.conf which I did. /etc/make.conf: CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fPIC -m32 CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu That is not setting the guest

[gentoo-user] Re: Some essential packages fail to compile

2012-09-08 Thread Andrea Conti
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cross-compiling-distcc.xml I also read it far before I wrote my email. In case I wasn't clear in my other email, what you should be paying attention to are the instructions under 'Configuring distcc to cross-compile correctly'. Of course, the instructions are

[gentoo-user] Re: Aw: Re: Re: Some essential packages fail to compile

2012-09-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/09/12 17:03, Roland Häder wrote: I was reading this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cross-compiling-distcc.xml I also read it far before I wrote my email. It specifically mentions you need crossdev: If you are cross-compiling between different subarchitectures for Intel

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC : another trap for the unwary

2012-09-08 Thread Andrea Conti
(1) Gcc 4.5.4 seems to require USE=cxx, not the previous -nocxx, which was covered by -* at the beginning of my list in make.conf . http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/73962 I guess they ended not putting in the check after all :) andrea

Aw: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some essential packages fail to compile

2012-09-08 Thread Roland Häder
CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fPIC -m32 CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu I have reformated my disk because I missed a parameter (-d . or so) which would make it possible for dracut to use gpg key decryption. Now I have to reinstall all from scratch (including configuring kernel).

Aw: [gentoo-user] Re: Some essential packages fail to compile

2012-09-08 Thread Roland Häder
$ FEATURES=-distcc emerge klibc Thanks. :) Roland

[gentoo-user] Re: Puzzling lvm2 behavior?

2012-09-08 Thread walt
On 09/08/2012 12:10 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 08.09.2012 20:20, schrieb walt: I used lvextend -r -L n /dev/wd0/wd0, where n is the number of unused extents listed by pvdisplay. To specify extents, you should use -l. Thanks, Florian. That was exactly my mistake.

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC : another trap for the unwary

2012-09-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Sep 08 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 10:47:47 -0400 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: (3) Groff + Openssh have an X flag : is this useful ? for groff this builds gxditview, whatever that is. Probably an X man-page viewer. I've never used it, I always run man

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses readline USE flag

2012-09-08 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 09:07:02AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote Isn't readline enabled by default on all reasonable profiles? Do you have USE=-* in make.conf? If so, it's just bitten you. Yup. I did that to avoid further surprises after the developers in their infinite wisdom had IPV6 enabled