Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] A couple ppc-macos questions

[David Bélanger]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:13:46PM -0400, Colin wrote:
> I've got Portage running on Tiger.2 on a PowerBook G3 (Lombard) right
> now, and it's working fine.  But there are a few questions I'd like
> to have answered.
>
> 1.  Are we supposed to set USE flags for this platform?  The official
> guide didn't mention it, but I noticed some packages still had USE
> options (saw this with emerge -v), so I've used some both in my
> make.conf and at the command line.  Is this OK?
>
> 2.  There are a lot of masked packages, but I've noticed that stuff
> is either masked with ~ppc or missing, and nothing with ~ppc-macos.
> Is this a bug in Portage, or should I be using ~ppc to install masked
> packages?
>

~ppc implies ppc-linux...  It has nothing to do with MacOS...
A package without keywords means that it has not been tested or not
been ported.  You could always add the keyword and test yourself.

> 3.  Come to think of it, is there a way to find out why something is
> masked?
>
> 4.  CURL sucks.  If the server returns a 404, that is saved into the
> file, which spells disaster for 125 MB downloads over dial-up
> (NeoOffice/J, not Gentoo but I used CURL).  I emerged wget (USE="ipv6
> ssl");  what are the commands needed in make.conf to use wget instead
> of CURL?
>
> 5.  The CFLAG march doesn't seem to work on PPC.  I have no problem
> using mcpu instead, but what's the reason for gcc not marching on PPC?
>
> 6.  Is there a gentoo-ppc-macos-user list, or is this it?  (I
> probably should have asked this one first!)
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> Colin
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gentoo-osx@g.o
I think.

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