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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xf86-driver-ati-6.6.3 fails [SOLVED]
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:48:25
Message-Id: 200610170942.17972.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xf86-driver-ati-6.6.3 fails by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 On Tuesday 17 October 2006 07:11, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
2 > On Monday 16 October 2006 22:17, Mick wrote:
3 > > Hi All,
4 > >
5 > > I started an update world today which ran through xorg-server and
6 > > xorg-x11 before it went along to update x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.6.3.
7 > > This package tries to check /etc/portage/profile/make.globals and fails
8 > > miserably. :-( The reason is that I have no such file. The only file I
9 > > can find in /etc/portage/profile is profile.bashrc.
10
11 > [SNIP]
12 >
13 > I see two options. Either upgrade to latest ~arch portage and see if that
14 > fixes it or file a bug..
15
16 Thanks Bo,
17
18 I am writing this from a fully gui-fied system! The problem seems to be
19 a "userpriv" parameter in my make.conf. No idea how userpriv brought up the
20 error I posted previously, but with userpriv removed the compile and build
21 worked fine. Another happy camper. :)
22 --
23 Regards,
24 Mick