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From: Fei Liu <feiliu@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:40:09
Message-Id: 45C39F65.2080106@aepnetworks.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile by Fei Liu
1 Fei Liu wrote:
2 > Hello, I was going to install 'webalizer' (apache monitoring software)
3 > by 'emerge -kv webalizer', I got the following error:
4 >
5 > !!! ERROR: app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r12 failed.
6 > Call stack:
7 > ebuild.sh, line 1555: Called dyn_setup
8 > ebuild.sh, line 668: Called pkg_setup
9 > webalizer-2.01.10-r12.ebuild, line 45: Called die
10 >
11 > !!! recompile gd with USE="png"
12 > !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call
13 > stack if relevant.
14 >
15 > I tried to do 'USE="png" emerge -update gd', and I got a scary list of
16 > package ebuilds:
17 > [ebuild N ] media-libs/gd-2.0.33 USE="png*"
18 > [ebuild N ] media-libs/freetype-2.1.10-r2
19 > [ebuild N ] media-libs/libpng-1.2.12
20 > [ebuild N ] sys-devel/libtool-1.5.22
21 > ....skipped
22 >
23 > What should I do in this case? How exactly should I update my 'gd'
24 > package? Sorry, I am still new to the emerge system.
25 >
26 > Thanks,
27 > Fei
28 Hello, I am just reporting back, I have this fixed (by trying with -p flag):
29
30 USE="png jpeg" emerge -vkp gd
31
32 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
33
34 Calculating dependencies... done!
35 [ebuild R ] media-libs/gd-2.0.33 USE="jpeg* png* truetype
36 -fontconfig -xpm" 0 kB
37
38
39 One thing I am curious is, it seems a lot of source code packages are
40 cached on my local machine, what should I do to remove them from my hard
41 drive?
42
43 Fei
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Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile Jakob Buchgraber <jakob.buchgraber@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx>