Re: [gentoo-user] getting increasingly worried about this.

[ckard]

Hello,

So from what i understand from your burbling you run a ~testing arch
and the last update of spidermonkey removed jit that is used by kde.

First of all, there's nothing like "Stable Enough" testing branch.
It's fairly stable like won't kill your cat but sometimes things break
that's why we testing it and report them (and some exceptional times
your cat might be in danger too, poor neko)

Just downgrade to the last spidermonkey version that expose jit
flag and if you want to be useful open a bug for the :52 and :45
versions that lost jit flag to let the kde guys know.

You could also reverse the latest commit from git and regain jit
in your local overlay but developer obviously had his/her reasons
to do so (http://bugs.gentoo.org/631574).

Bye

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 7:48 PM, Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@×××××××.net> wrote:

> I'm now running my update script daily (on a SSD...)
>
> KDE is still profoundly broken.
> Steam still doesn't work. -- might be fixed by a reboot but can't reboot
> due to dependence on kde packages...
>
> Today I get
> [ebuild   R    ] dev-lang/spidermonkey-52.9.1_pre1:52::gentoo
> USE="custom-cflags system-icu -custom-optimization -debug -minimal
> {-test} (-jit%*)" 0 KiB
>
>
> I can't read the syntax there up around jit, clearly it is disabled for
> some platform reason even though it is enabled in make.conf and even,
> for some packages, in profile...
>
> OK.
>
> Then it barfs. (unsurprisingly)
>
> The vomit reads like the developer turned on warnings for many things he
> wanted to pretend to want to fix but never fixed them...
>
> Anyway, It gets all the way to the install phase and it dies because:
>
>  * ERROR: dev-lang/spidermonkey-52.9.1_pre1::gentoo failed (install
> phase):
>  *   USE Flag 'jit' not in IUSE for dev-lang/spidermonkey-52.9.1_pre1
>
> and I'm like FU, asshole. The flag is enabled, you disabled it, -- just
> run in interpreted mode for chrissake!
>
>
> And then we get to the perennial fails, fails that have been broken FOR
> YEARS, and are breaking really super important stuff like Xine, the best
> media player for Linux...
>
> ├── dev-libs
> │   ├── libcdio-2.0.0-r1
> │   └── libcdio-paranoia-0.94_p2
>
> ├── media-sound
> │   └── playmidi-2.5-r2
>
> What?!?!?! I'm not allowed to play midi files on linux anymore either? =(
>
>
> I really want to like the recent package cleanups, I really do, but
> seriously, the distribution is severely broken right now. I mean keyword
> [platform] is much too conservative to be usable... But then keyword
> ~[platform] should be Stable Enough -- as it has been for over a
> decade... Can we please stop breaking stuff until these things are
> working again???
>
>
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