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Hi Gentoo Hackers, |
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I've read Martin's post, and I am going to follow Martin's suggestions later. |
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But before I followed Martin's suggestions, I wanted to try to emerge one |
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more thing that I really can't live without -- gaim. The reason for this is |
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simple: I feel I should be able to emerge gnome apps without actually |
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emerging gnome itself. There might be technical reasons why this could be |
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impossible, but I am 95% sure that it should be possible to compile and use |
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gaim without gnome. So I did: |
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emerge net-im/gaim |
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And what followed was pretty uneventful, except the following bits: |
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config.status: creating po/Makefile |
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gaim 0.45 |
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Allow Multiple Connections.. : yes |
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Build Protocol Plugins...... : yes |
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Protocols to link statically : oscar toc |
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Build with GNOME bits....... : yes |
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Use GdkPixbuf for Icons..... : yes |
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Build as GNOME applet....... : yes |
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Build with Plugin support... : yes |
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Build with Perl support..... : yes |
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Use XScreenSaver Extension.. : yes |
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Build with ESD.............. : yes |
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Build with NAS.............. : no |
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Build with ArtsC............ : yes |
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Print debugging messages.... : no |
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Gaim will be installed in /usr/bin. |
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configure complete, now type 'make' |
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Ok, here we see that config is totally wrong. I don't want 'GNOME bits' and |
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I don't want to build gaim as 'GNOME applet' as I have no intention of |
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running GNOME (at least not soon). |
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So, it finishes compiling without any errors, and now I have useless |
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/usr/bin/gaim_applet. Obviously if I try to run it, it gives me a corba |
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error, and although I am sure it's pointless, I will cut and paste the error |
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for the sake of completeness: |
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** WARNING **: file applet-widget.c: line 955: Corba Exception: type = 2 exid |
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= IDL:CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 |
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For the sake of completeness, here is my USE variable, as defined in |
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/etc/make.conf: |
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USE="slang readline gpm berkdb gdbm tcpd pam libwww ssl |
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lm_sensors lvm pcmcia-cs alsa |
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nls mmx mitshm |
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esd lcms gif sdl vorbis ogg |
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gnome gtk X qt kde motif opengl mozilla |
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3dnow perl python tcltk java guile ruby mysql postgres ldap odbc |
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ggi fbcon svga tex bonobo nas qtmt aalib oss arts libg++" |
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How I ended up with these USE flags is very simple. I simply edited the |
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default /etc/make.conf, and in addition to the USE flags already defined |
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there, I have added every single flag from the "Other stable USE flags" |
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section. |
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If my USE flags are wrong, it may be a good idea to either change the rc6 |
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docs, or provide a better default /etc/make.conf, or maybe both? |
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Offtopic: I just noticed something else, KMail fails to invoke ispell. |
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Weird. ispell is there and it is in my PATH. I did start KMail from KDE |
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application launcher instead of my shell, maybe that's the problem? |
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--Leo |
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