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From: Ramon van Alteren <ramon@××××××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Preparing for Snow Leopard
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:01:12
Message-Id: 4AB27964.30900@vanalteren.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] Preparing for Snow Leopard by Fabian Groffen
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4 Fabian Groffen wrote:
5 > On 17-09-2009 17:53:03 +0200, Ramon van Alteren wrote:
6 >> I'm redoing my prefix setup on snowleopard and finding the following issues:
7 >>
8 >> eselect-python has faulty deps, it will not compile using the bootstrap guide
9 >> because it cannot find a suitable version of autoconf, which is correct, there
10 >> is no autoconf installed at that point. Maybe that should be added to the BDEP ?
11 >> Or is it a specific fail related to bootstrapping a prefix ?
12 >
13 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284670
14 >
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16 Cool, so that one is fixed as well.
17
18 >> I tried the work-around that fabian suggested using USE="-aqua" but that failed
19 >> as well. Using USE="-aqua -ncurses -readline" at least build python for me.
20 >> Could this be related/caused by the ongoing work on the way python is build as
21 >> discussed in another thread ?
22 >
23 > The problem is you probably have a mix of 32-bits and 64-bits libs. I'm
24 > still working on the right procedure here. It seems that if you go for
25 > a 32-bits one (the default) you need to set CC="gcc -m32" CXX="g++ -m32"
26 > to obtain 32-bits libs during bootstrapping (before gcc-apple is being
27 > built).
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29 I'll retry tonite if I get round it with the settings above and see if that helps.
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31 >> openssh fails to build [1]
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33 This one is already closed, cool.
34
35 >> After that I tried to re-emerge ncurses with the unicode useflag which failed in
36 >> the postrm phase leaving the prefix in a unusable state. The dynlib for ncurses
37 >> was no longer loadable which is a pretty critical error :(
38 >
39 > Yup, I'm sorry. I still don't have Snow Leopard myself, but luckily got
40 > access to a box now.
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42 OK, If you need/want me to run any testing I'll be back on monday/tuesday and
43 since my primary box is a snowleopard box I have fairly easy access :)
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45 My current prefix still works after upgrading, but I've restarted on a new
46 bootstrap after the last failed attempt...
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48 If you're upgrading to snowleopard don't forget to reinstall the xcode stuff as
49 well, the upgrade deleted/borked it on my machine causing some weird errors in
50 prefix which were all solved by reinstalling xcode for snowleopard from apple.
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52 Ramon
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Re: [gentoo-alt] Preparing for Snow Leopard Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>