Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-alt] Interesting info for old Linux hosts (inotify existance)
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:26:00
Message-Id: 90b936c0812051225s64982325g443c92293cf2273@mail.gmail.com
1 If you have a Linux prefix and the host OS has <=glibc-2.4, then you
2 will likely have issues with inotify
3
4 The recent gamin upgrade to 0.1.10 pulls in
5 dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r1. Both of these have something similar to
6 "$(use_enable kernel_linux inotify)" in the ebuilds. This means that
7 if you are on a linux host, --enable-inotify will get passed to
8 configure. This will only work for you if you have a recent-ish glibc.
9 Which isn't a guarantee in Gentoo Prefix. So, to workaround that, you
10 want to pass --disable-inotify to configure.
11
12 %% grep EXTRA_ECONF $EPREFIX/etc/portage/env/*/*
13 ${EPREFIX}/etc/portage/env/app-admin/gam-server:EXTRA_ECONF="--disable-inotify"
14 ${EPREFIX}/etc/portage/env/dev-libs/libgamin:EXTRA_ECONF="--disable-inotify"
15
16 Hope this helps somebody. I had to spend about 15 minutes on it =/