Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Joel Merrick <joel@××××××××××××.com>
To: Collins Richey <crichey@×××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] a little advice on xorg-x11
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:45:28
Message-Id: 1100105116.6717.109.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] a little advice on xorg-x11 by Collins Richey
1 On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 09:27 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
2 > FYI. My system is ~x86 everything.
3 >
4 > I began trying to fix a problem with xscreensver (again!). After
5 > recent emerges of gcc and glibc, xscreensaver began to cause X to
6 > crash. A while ago (bug #64656), this was caused by needing to
7 > reemerge gtk+. I've done this, so I thought to reemerge xorg-x11 only
8 > to find that xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2 (my current xorg, emerged on Sep. 21)
9 > has subsequently been masked. When I attemp to emerge xorg-x11, I get
10 > xorg-x11-6.7.0-r1
11
12 ??
13
14 * x11-base/xorg-x11
15 Latest version available: 6.8.0-r1
16 Latest version installed: 6.8.0-r1
17
18 Or do you specifically need 6.7?
19
20 Is this a dev question?
21
22
23 > which will not compile due to the same problem
24 > reported in bug #20395 (glxinfo unable to compile because of libGLU
25 > errors) which was closed as invalid for xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2. I'm
26 > currently running gcc-3.4.3 and glibc-2.3.4.20041102. I don't find any
27 > other bugs relevant to me. Some people have reported "unabled to
28 > compile" with gcc-3.4.3, but I don't have that problem.
29 >
30 > Any suggestions on how to proceed?
31 >
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