Gentoo Archives: gentoo-ppc-user

From: "Daryl P. Williams" <daryl@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-ppc-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] newbie help with emerge --update --deep --newuse world
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:21:01
Message-Id: 44D1F814.7000807@weblane.com
1 hi David. thanks for your reply. i will try your suggestions and see
2 what happens.
3 rather than a bug in glibc, i suspect it is some error on my part as i
4 build up my
5 experience with gentoo. i hope to get over this issue and start using
6 and working
7 with gentoo soon.
8
9 regards,
10
11 daryl
12
13
14 David wrote:
15 > Hi Daryl,
16 >
17 > The builds fail. Could be a bug in Gentoo, a misconfiguration, etc.
18 > I do not have the answer of what is going on wrong in this case,
19 > maybe someone else will know.
20 >
21 > I will do the following suggestions though.
22 >
23 > 1) Remove ~ppc64 from your keywords or try the glibc marked stable
24 > (ppc64). ~ppc64 denotes the testing versions. If you are new, you
25 > might want to go with the stable version for most packages, they
26 > have been slightly tested better.
27 >
28 > 2) You can always skip glibc for now and install the other packages.
29 > With:
30 > emerge -av --oneshot pkg1 pkg2 ...
31 > you will be able to merge pkg1 pkg2 ...
32 > --oneshot will prevent them from being recorded in the world file.
33 > If there is a build bug for glibc, it might be fixed some time soon.
34 > Check bugs.gentoo.org and forums.gentoo.org for info too.
35 >
36 > Welcome to the Gentoo world and good luck with this problem.
37 >
38 > David
39 >
40 >
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