Re: [gentoo-dev] Useless USE descriptions...

[Stroller]

On Feb 12, 2004, at 3:21 pm, Jean Jordaan wrote:

>> I don't recall enough of the discussion of the -vim-with-x USE
>> flag... I
>
> Just an aside: I emerged gvim with USE='+gtk +gtk2', and all fonts
> were broken. Just opening the font-choosing dialog and clicking OK
> would set it to a very-widely-spaced sans. Recompiling without gtk
> got me a gvim that could at least see the X fonts (none of the cute
> truetype stuff), but luckily it's the X fonts I *need* for coding.
>
> The 2nd gvim had a totally different font-choosing dialogue, more
> in line with xfontsel's options.

$ cat /usr/portage/app-editors/gvim/gvim-6.2-r5.ebuild
... DEPEND="${DEPEND}
         ~app-editors/vim-core-${PV}
         virtual/x11
         gtk? ( gtk2? ( >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.1 virtual/xft ) ) :
                 ( gnome? ( gnome-base/gnome-libs ) :
                         ( gtk? ( =x11-libs/gtk+-1.2* ) :
                                 ( motif? ( x11-libs/openmotif ) ) ) )"

This is fairly easy to read if you run `man 5 ebuild` & skip to the 
section titled "Dynamic DEPENDs", however I can't immediately see that 
the ebuild influences --configure options - my best guess is that the 
gvim configure itself detects which libraries are installed on the 
system & takes advantage of those it finds. In which case... did you 
unmerge gtk or remerge gtk2 before recompiling gvim..?

Stroller.


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