Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE compile error, wrong dir in portage tree?

Christian Hergl wrote:
>
> Greetings, developers.
>
> I have a little fuzz with comiling the kde-2.1.1-r1 from the recent
> portage tree. The whole thing stops with:
>
> ...
> libtool: link: Cannot find the library '/usr'lib/libGL.la'
> make [3]: ***[kmorph3d.kss] Error 1
> make [3]: Leaving directory
> '/tmp/portage/kdebase-2.1.1-r1/work/kdebase-2.1.1/kscreensaver'
> ...
>
> I used the whole emerge thingy, the previous packages installes and
> compiled all fine, it seems. Never heard of the libGL.la, nor found
> anyting on the net about it. I do have a libGL.a though. Is that the
> same? Would a ln -s help in that matter (shot in the blue)?
>
this sounds like you have installed mesa-glu-3.5. this version does not
work with alot of 
packages atm and it's blocked.

> Btw, did a recent update of my portage tree 2 days ago, it seems that
> somehow the /usr/portage/distfiles got changed into /usr/portage/files.
> But the variable in the make.globals (i believe) is still set to
> distfiles. So I changed that manually back in my tree. Anyone noticed?

weird, I will take a look
>
> Btw, I'm one of the laptop installers (one of the few?). Running it on
> the Sony Vaio PCG-N505X, with USB floppy and PCMCIA CDROM. What a pain
> to install, coz the bootdisk does not recognize the floppy and I got
> trapped with no floppy available. The CDrom is not better, as at that
> time no CD Image of Gentoo was available. but it's up and running (after
> about 3 times of total corruption of the ReiserFS by Kernel 2.4.5, thank
> you. But got quicker with the whole gentoo installs by doing it several
> times ;)
> I heard that using the PCMCIA you should use the yenta_socket, not the
> i85xxx driver, coz that one is supposed to be buggy. Any confirmations?
> Yenta works nicely for me there.
> Uhm, with a recent dhcp I wasn't able to get up the inet with an ok,
> renaming inet.dhcp_eth0 into inet.eth0 solved that somehow. Dunno what
> goes wrong there.
> Oh ja, I hope dhclient is now included in RC5 ;)

we include dhcpcd by default
> Puh, gcc3.0 was no go for me, as it even didn't compile the kenrel!
> Kernel guys know and AC sez, that it works with 2.4.6pre5 and later. Doh =)
> Xfree4.1.0 compiled after changing the gcc variable to -mpentiumpro only
> (read: erasing the -march=pentiumpro thingy).
> Still missing the alsa drivers, the linux extras didn't install with me,
> so I grabbed the sources from alsa-project.org and compiled well. Now
> going for the modules entries in that case =P
>
make sure you have "alsa" in your USE variable then you get the alsa
modules.
If that does not work please log the linux-extras compilation and post
it here.

bye achim~

> That's all I can rememer right off. Compiles take dreadfull long on that
> Celeron 333 laptop....
>
> But it's a fun distribution,
> bye,
> Christian
>
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