1.1

After trying a few things a lot of thing refused to compile, so I got
my external hard drive and started a new installation with the 2008
profile and the x11 overlay. And so far it is going well, if
everything goes well I will move that installation to my current one.

Just to keep you posted :)

On 6/21/08, Beso <givemesugarr@...> wrote:
> 2008/6/21 Tonko Mulder <tonko.mulder@...>:
>
>> I'm in the middle of a emerge -e world, since the new portage requested
>> this.
>> A lot of things fail to compile, among these are x11-libs/libX11-9999
>> / libXext-9999 and libXi-9999
>> I don't know if they will compile later on or should I remove every
>> driver for X?
>> I believe that was in Beso's post.
>
>
> probably they failed because of the new libxcb api which has removed 2
> useless libtool archive files that shouldn't be used from the start. the
> other thing that might cause problems is portage deps resolver which
> sometime is bad and would emerge some packages after the ones requiring
> them. this usually happens often in an emerge -e world.
> if you try to rebuild them after the world rebuild and you cannot build them
> again, remove the installed versions (with emerge --unmerge libX11 linXext
> libXi ) and reemerge them with emerge --oneshot libX11 libXext libXi. at
> that point they should emerge.  if they don't emerge emerge the portage ones
> with xorg-server from portage and post the emerge logs so we can help you
> out. you'll get also xorg-server error surely since libX11 isn't the one
> required as dep and, as i've told you, probably also libXtst and xdpyinfo.
> today i have a little spare time and i'll search out for the synaptics
> ebuild (with patches) to post in the case you own a synaptics or alps
> touchpad.
>
>
> --
> dott. ing. beso
>
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