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

[Michael Fothergill]

Dear Benda,

Yes. I did succeed with the compilation.

I logged back into gentoo prefix to check again.

See here:

mikef@fart:~/gentoo$ equery l chromium
 * Searching for chromium ...
[IP-] [  ] www-client/chromium-76.0.3809.36:0
mikef@fart:~/gentoo$

If you run /usr/bin/chromium the browser window fires up.........

The history command still shows the commands I ran to install it.

Cheers

MF


On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 01:34, Benda Xu <heroxbd@g.o> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> How was this project going?  Have you succeeded in compiling chromium in
> Gentoo Prefix?
>
> Benda
>
> Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@×××××.com> writes:
>
> > Many thanks for the reply.
> >
> > I went in the $EPREFIX/var/lib/repos/gentoo directory to look for the
> > nghttp2 ebuild......
> >
> > The ebuild lives here on my machine:
> >
> > mikef@fart:~/gentoo/usr/portage/net-libs/nghttp2
> >
> > I found the nghttp2-1.39.1.ebuild file.
> >
> > Toward the end of the file there is a bit of code with the myeconfargs
> > variable (or whatever it is) present in it:
> >
> > multilib_src_configure() {
> >         local myeconfargs=(
> >                 --disable-examples
> >                 --disable-failmalloc
> >                 --disable-python-bindings
> >                 --disable-werror
> >                 --without-cython
> >                 $(use_enable cxx asio-lib)
> >                 $(use_enable debug)
> >                 $(multilib_native_use_enable hpack-tools)
> >                 $(use_enable static-libs static)
> >                 $(use_enable threads)
> >                 $(multilib_native_use_enable utils app)
> >                 $(multilib_native_use_with jemalloc)
> >                 $(multilib_native_use_with xml libxml2)
> >         )
> >         ECONF_SOURCE="${S}" econf "${myeconfargs[@]}"
> > }
> >
> > multilib_src_install_all() {
> >         if ! use static-libs ; then
> >                 find "${ED}"/usr -name '*.la' -delete || die
> >         fi
> > }
> > mikef@fart:~/gentoo/usr/portage/net-libs/nghttp2$
> >
> > ***************************************
> > Presumably if I would edit this file with e.g. emacs then I could add
> > --with-boost="${EPREFIX}"/usr
> >
> > to the file after the two instances of myeconfargs (or do I only do it
> > once in the ECONF_SOURCE line?).....
> >
> > Also would I add --with-boost="${EPREFIX}"/usr OR
> > --with-boost=/home/mikef/gentoo/usr
> > ie the actual path on my machine here?
> >
> > I did not realise the ebuilds were editable files that lived in
> > directories in the install itself.
> > I thought portage used them for the compilations but they were off
> > limits to users like me and only assembled
> > by developers and converted to a form that was not easily accessible
> etc.....
> >
> >
> > If this succeeds and chromium compiles, could I use the make.conf file
> > video card entries etc from my conventional
> > gentoo install I have here on this machine to modify the gentoo prefix
> > make.conf file to allow me to emerge and
> > install xorg-server ie  x11-base/xorg-server in gentoo prefix and then
> > run startx etc?
> >
> > I would then  install i3 and dmenu etc and then run chromium.......
> >
> > I think this is better than using e.g. bedrock linux etc.  Gentoo and
> > debian are both good.  If you combine them
> > then that would be useful I think.
> >
> > Comments appreciated.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > MF
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 at 09:50, Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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
> >> >
>
>