[gentoo-alt] Re: simple question about installing chromium browser for use in debian OS using gentoo prefix..

[Fabian Groffen]

Hi Michael,

First, I think emerging something like chromium pulls in a lot of heavy
dependencies, which often haven't received any Prefix attention, or were
simply not kept up-to-date.  I'm not aware if anyone is using Prefix as
their desktop env, I once did so (years ago) but it's tedious at times.

Now, with that "warning" in mind, it seems that for
https://bugs.gentoo.org/647740
adding --with-boost="${EPREFIX}"/usr might have the right effect.  Did
you try modifying the ebuild adding that to myeconfargs?

It's in your portage tree (probably still in $EPREFIX/usr/portage, more
recent location in $EPREFIX/var/lib/repos/gentoo) in
net-libs/nghttp2/nghttp2-1.39.1.ebuild.

Thanks,
Fabian

On 23-06-2019 11:03:44 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> PS
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> I have gone and tried to install the chromium browser using gentoo prefix.
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> I have run into the bug discussed here:
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/647740
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> The package net-libs/nghttp2-1.39.1
> fails to compile
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> See here
> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8346068.html#8346068
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> and the appropriate log file pastes therein.
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> I tried adding the local use flag asio to the make.conf file:
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> mikef@fart ~ $ !229
> more /home/mikef/gentoo/etc/portage/make.conf
> # Added by bootstrap-prefix.sh for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> USE="asio unicode nls icu ssl"
> CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -O2 -pipe"
> CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
> MAKEOPTS="-j3"
> CONFIG_SHELL="/home/mikef/gentoo/bin/bash"
> # sandbox does not work well on Prefix, bug 490246
> FEATURES="${FEATURES} -usersandbox -sandbox"
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> source /home/mikef/gentoo/etc/profile
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> to update the system to let it see the new flag.
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> I reran emerge chromium and it failed again for the same reason as before.
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> Suggestions on a workaround are appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> MF
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> PS
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> The bug discussion by Gabor Vida says "After debugging the configure
> script, I ended up that if configure gets --with-boost=${EPREFIX},
> then it properly finds Boost::ASIO, as it can set BOOST_ROOT and
> BOOST_LDFLAGS." amongst other things.
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> What does this refer to and if it would help where does this script live?
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> Can I edit e.g. with emacs and add this extra line somewhere and it
> would then fix the problem?
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> Comments appreciated.
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> Regards
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> MF
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> On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 at 17:09, Michael Fothergill
> <michael.fothergill@×××××.com> wrote:
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> > Dear All,
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> > I notice from looking at a recent post on the debian user list that
> > the current versions of the chromium browser available in debian
> > stretch and buster are rather old and are missing quite a few security
> > updates.
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> > The user was requesting a newer version of chromium be made available
> > in debian to solve the problem.
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> > It occurred to me that I could use gentoo prefix to install the latest
> > version of chromium from the gentoo repositories.
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> > That ought to be more recent.
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> > If I would do that, would the installed version of chromium be seen by
> > the debian OS window manager (e.g. LXDE or GNOME or can you only run
> > the browser from inside the gentoo prefix directory after starting it
> > up and specifying path to the browser ie something like
> > /usr/bin/chromium <return> etc?
> >
> > What exactly is the offset used by gentoo prefix?
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> > Is it some kind of chroot environment?
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> > What is the correct way to copy files in an out of it from the debian
> > OS environment?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Michael Fothergill
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-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level